SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labour Power, Profit Motive, Feudalism
27 Jan 2016
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Industrial revolution england 1780"s (marx"s view, feudal mode to a brand new mode capitalism; industrial) a full change of society. Feudal manors became private property, churches, people had attachments with the lord of the manor and lived in a cottage getting goods and in return the lord would give his protection. The private property becomes available for selling and those people are kicked out. Society is divided into a landowning class and a landless class (certs has historical rights to live on that land) when the land is sold, they are now landless and now have to work for the capitalist system. Violence by propertied class or newly formed governments in service of the landowners. Evicting people is known as an act of violence as they are taking away people"s ways of life. Society is now divided into land owned class and a landless class throughout the world. Capitalists are not in this for fun .
