GEOG1200 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Previous Lecture I Karl Marx II Dialectical Materialism III Value IV Mode of Production Outline of Current Lecture I Mode of Production continued Current Lecture Mode of Production As described in the last lecture the mode of production changes depending on what time period you are in 100 000 years ago was hunting and gathering society 10 000 years ago was King ordered tribal slave 5 000 years ago was State or Tributary 500 years ago was Capitalism The technology for hunting and gathering were spears bows and arrows etc the means of production is labor bows and arrows The production relation was communal and the super structure is nature was worshipped and sacrifices King ordered tribal slave societies had means of production farm tools wagons plows etc The product relations were tribal lord and slave The super structure is religion nature worshipped ancestry worshipped and proto state The King society had a pyramid structure on the bottom tier were slaves just above them were peasants or serfs above them were traders and artisans then military bureaucracy and priests and the top tier is the King This society is seen in the EgyptianNile valley Indus valley Pakistan India and Chinese Hwang Ho These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute State society s mode of production is labor irrigation fleet of ships Production relations King vs peasants serfs slaves The super structure is organized religion harvest festival military bureaucracy Capitalism s mode of production is a large emphasis on labor factories and machine Product relation is capitalist vs working class The super structure is religion monetized market legal and police
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