ENGL309G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Forcible Entry, Labour Power, Productive Forces
10 Jan 2017
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Engl 309 lecture 3 january 10, 2017. Louis althusser: the particular essay we are talking about starts on page 127 (you can find it on learn) All of us (who are workers even though we are all thought to be middle class people we cant survive without earning a wage), we are so steeped in keeping our status as a worker. It is almost impossible for us to perceive the conditions that cause us to continue living the way we are. Reproduction of the means of production: capital (money, machinery, raw materials. Reproduction of productive forces or labor power: wages, workplace competencies (workers know what is required of them, submission (you need to agree to go to work and agree to make things and take a wage, consent. They function primarily by the means of violence (or their threat of violence) They make opportunities and change for different things less attainable. Examples: government, army, police, the courts, prisons, ideological.
