POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Progress, Class Conflict
5 Dec 2018
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Refugee crisis ( letting in syrian refugees) Oct 19 = important video come to class. But government is only part of the domain of politics. According to one textbook (dickerson and flanagan), government has to do with compulsion, not voluntary decision making. Government is a specialized activity of those individuals that make and enforce public decisions that are binding upon the whole community (p4) . Government, then, is the institutional apparatus that makes and enforces rules on society. But note the bolded terms: government seems very top-down according to this definition. Without a government = increase in criminal activity. Spiritual communities function fine without a government. Government is a new thing ( past generations did not have it) Karl marx (marxist) : social theory that argues that social change comes about through economic class struggle. Marxism formed the philosophical basis for the rise of communism.
