POL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capital: Critique Of Political Economy, The Gleaners, Surplus Labour
13 May 2016
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Lecture 1 (class and regionalism: class in canadian politics. Marxism is the most important when it comes to defining canadian politics. There is no way to organize a capitalist society outside of conflict. The main reason for this conflict is that the proletarians are exploited. Capitalists want profit will only get profit if they exploit the working class- the proletarians. Why: if you are oppressed, you are inferior to the ones in power, people are told that class is natural. There must be some reward for capitalists as they take risks: own factories factory doesn"t work workers get new jobs- capitalists lose everything. The gleaners were people who would pick grains that were left behind after the harvest. Economic relations are fundamental: he makes everything about economics, but this has developed and been integrated into modern society now involves injustice on behalf of capitalist society. When you look at capital you look at two different big classes of it.
