POLS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wage Labour, Centralisation, Proletariat

• School: Humber College
• Department: Photography
• Course: POLS 200
• Professor: Tyler Shipley

Document Summary

Communists bring to front common interests of all proletariat regardless of nationality, always represent interests of proletariat movement against bourgeoisie as a whole. Aim: form proletariat into class, overthrow bourgeois supremacy, conquest political power by proletariat. Not abolition of property, but abolition of bourgeois property, modern bourgeois private property is expression of system of producing products based on class antagonisms, exploitation of many by the few. Communism summed up: abolition of private property. Wage la(cid:271)ou(cid:396) (cid:272)(cid:396)eates (cid:272)apital, p(cid:396)ope(cid:396)t(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h e(cid:454)ploits (cid:449)age la(cid:271)ou(cid:396), (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ease e(cid:454)(cid:272)ept (cid:271)(cid:455) getting new supply of wage labour for fresh exploitation, not only personal but social power. When capital converted to common property loses class character. Wage labour in capitalist society is means of sustenance to keep labourer in existence as labourer, in communist accumulated labour is means to enrich and promote existence of labourer. In bourgeois society past dominates present, vice versa in communist.