FREN 320 Lecture Notes - Wage Labour
16 Sep 2013
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Pols250 winter term notes secret slides part 5 (karl marx) 2) thought that it was unjust: adopting the future view of a communist society. 3) marx thought it was both just and unjust, that is just in one respect and unjust in another. Just in the fact of morality as an ideology: unjust in that it is oppression (concepts of exploitation and alienation. 4) thought it was neither just nor unjust. Secret slide 2: recall humes circumstances of justice. 1) moderate sanctity of goods (justice becomes possible and necessary) Marx argues that we can transcend this because he believes that once this happens we won"t need justice. 2) humans are between devils and saints. When we are in middle we create government and laws. Marx believes humans are closer to the side of the devil. Secret slide 3: exploitation in the labour process of capitalism. Key is the distinction between necessary and surplus wage labour.
