HUMR 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Atlantic Slave Trade, White Privilege, Free Market
28 Nov 2016
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Everything up to post-structuralism on exam fill in the blank, multiple choice, concept matching (quote match with author, quotes are specific to author based on major points) Three categories of human suffering: exploitation rooted in class relations. 2 major classes, working class sell labour, value is higher than pay. Surplus production workers and unfree labourers produce more wealth at work than access to. Surplus distribution wealth produced appropriated by owning class. Also is unequal within classes, unequal distribution of wealth within workers privilege (who gets access to goods and services, health care, education) O(cid:374)e of mar(cid:454)"s key contributions to critique of capitalism. Marx: writing in industrial rev writing in response to religious ideology (suffering part of human condition, inevitable, have to suffer) Marx grounded in materialism (structures, every day things, logics of power construct reality) human suffering is product of social systems, result of power reltions such as capitalism. Based on private property ownership, depreves of resouces and dehumanizing.
