SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, The Communist Manifesto, John Locke
22 Mar 2016
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Locke"s text is universal precepts how human beings everywhere are and should be. Universalism meets up with contradictions that he experiences in the world he resides in. Locke may not be racist but he may be an author of a theory that causes certain racist theories can evolve from. Provisional conclusion (1) primacy of private party over political jurisdiction. Men leave the state of nature to protect themselves from violence, but the origins of such violence remain obscure to locke. In other words, locke completely ignores the violence of appropriation itself (what marx will call original accumulation). In turn, he ignores the degree to which the establishment of institutions of government to protect accumulated property would also be heavily. Invested in perpetuating these arrangements into the future. This is particularly true since locke"s idealized state of nature is imagined retrospectively from the vantage point of communities that are already established under institutions of civil government.
