ARTS3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The German Ideology, False Consciousness, Class Conflict
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Communist society = nobody has an exclusive sphere of society" that defines them (hunter, fisher, cattle, critic vs. all) Marx: not true individuality (in which you get to reap all the benefits of your own labor) Voluntarily divided work natural leads to inequality/competition/oppression; human activity must be regulated (160) The proletariat : alienated class, unable to benefit from the division of labor. Communism abolishes alienation and re establishes the relationship between labor and benefit by regulating production (participation equal benefit of labor) What is desirable is feasible and what is feasible is inevitable . In capitalism, the whole mass of conditions of existence, limitations, biases of individuals, are fused together into the two simplest forms: private property and labor (190) Philosophy, religion, politics, morality sees as important, but not as the driver of history. Need consciousness to act in the world. Revolution = required abolition of false consciousness recognition of subjection to ideology.
