LWSO 201 Lecture Notes - Agnosticism, Social Forces, The Communist Manifesto

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 201
• Professor: Marywyatt Sindlinger

Document Summary

Linked to democracy and capitalism a capitalistic system maximizes economic freedom of individual values contract, lowering taxes. Rights of freedoms: critiques, most of us are not that rational, the idea is that we are equaly free, equaly autonomous and rationan. In a perfect communist state, you do not need law. A consideration of the relationship between law and economics and the relationship between law and class historical materialism: history of all societies is social structure. The struggle between the direct producer and those who reap the benefits: look at the individual, history and social circumstances precedes what happens in the future, modes of production-organization of labour and instruments of labour. Social relations of production (rights, wages etc) Physical and technological arrangements of production (who owns the instruments) This leads to the creation of a social structure and economic power. Capitalism renforces inequality and the law facilitates this separation (property law and contract law).