SOCI 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat
28 Sep 2017
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Contemporary economic fact: the more capitalism advances, the more impoverished the worker becomes worse, because increased wealth that capitalist system of production makes possible is appropriated by capitalist, point of departure for analysis of alienation. Alienation from the product of labor (analytically separable source of alienation) produced by the process of labor: reflects two facts. Capitalists appropriate goods which rightful belong to workers. Alienation from the process of labor (analytically separable source of alienation: occupational specialization of capitalism fragments work into routine and undemanding tasks. Work is not intrinsic satisfaction of need, work is a means of satisfying other needs. Because labor is imposed by external forces selling yourself for wages. Overcoming alienation: get rid of private property and wage labor get rid of capitalism, move away from a system of production, solution is: true communism because it is a classless society.
