Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Utopian Socialism, Hierarchical Organization, Industrial Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Basic goods should be produced with the aim of benefiting all. Against capitalism and its unequal distribution of power. Industrial revolution led to dangerous, difficult, undignified factory work. Moral objections to exploitation poverty, and greed. Scientific claims about historical change and end of capitalism. Replace capitalist inefficiency with expert planning and organizational hierarchy. 1849-1883: (cid:858)te(cid:373)porar(cid:455)(cid:859) e(cid:454)ile i(cid:374) lo(cid:374)do(cid:374: political agitation, family and poverty, scholarly research. Hegel: history as the development of spirit, god comes to self-awareness. Feuerbach: we create god in our own image, we alienate our human capacities for knowledge, power, and goodness. Religion is created in response to poverty and suffering (cid:862) eligio(cid:374) is the opiu(cid:373) of the people(cid:863: produ(cid:272)es euphoria (cid:894)a (cid:858)buzz(cid:859)(cid:895, painkiller, can render you incapable of flourishing. Creative producers whose work is punishing, degraded, commodified. Workers(cid:859) li(cid:448)es are su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t to alie(cid:374) for(cid:272)es. All of history up to now is the history of class struggle.