POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: World Social Forum, Credit Union, Maoism
8 Oct 2016
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Workers will realize their exploitation and alienation are neither necessary or inevitable. Workers (and their allies) will seek to overthrow the existing socio-economic order. As wealth and power become concentrated in the hands of few. And as capitalism goes through more severe crises. There have been crisis but the workers still end up actually being with the capitalists and supporting. Marx thought they would have to actually overthrow the government and would have to overthrow the state. Marx didn"t anticipate that we would get a social democracy. As capitol is expanded every capitalist wants to expand production to expand their capitol and want to sell as much as they can. At a certain point here would be overproduction. The role of the state and ideology in capitalism. To try and prevent revolution the role of the state. For max the economic base is the foundation of society.
