sociology

AP/SOSC1140 9.0 Self, Culture and Society Fall/Winter 2018-2019 ESSAY 2 Assigned: October 29 on Moodle Due: Week of November 18 In Tutorial or as Instructed by your Tutorial Leader Length: 4 pages maximum. Format: Double-spaced. 2.5cm (1") Margins. Times New Roman Font. Size 12. Attach your Turnitin Receipt to your essay. ESSAY TOPIC __________________________________________________________________________________________ Use only the Course Kit and class notes. A paper containing any information from the Internet will receive a grade of zero. Provide proper citations in the format suggested by your tutorial leader. __________________________________________________________________________________________ In the excerpt from Anti-Dühring entitled “Theoretical” Engels takes an historical materialist approach. He indicates that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally contradictory and from this he traces a series of social and economic conflicts that follow inevitably from this basic contradiction. In your essay, following an introduction that makes clear what will be done in the paper: 1. Establish what Engels means by historical materialism. 2. Explain the fundamental contradiction in capitalism. 3. Explain these two contradictions that arise from the fundamental contradiction: a) The contradiction “between the organisation of production in the individual factory and the anarchy of production in society as a whole” (Engels, p. 299). b) “The mode of production rebels against the mode of exchange; the productive forces rebel against the mode of production, which they have outgrown ” (Engels, p. 302). 4. Conclude by briefly explaining what Engels envisions as the ultimate outcome of the historical development  of capitalism.