POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: For Marx, Proletariat, Class Consciousness
27 Jan 2016
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Capitalism- find more buyer more consumers- marx crisis of over production. Short rational behaviour causes everything to be irrational. More production in my factory for widgets, less value(supply demand) More widgets more efficiently, make sure machines are running, less workers. Saturating market with product, overall market being saturated, want to buy the widgets decrease. Capitalism is constantly revolutionzing infrastructure, create 1 world market. Extract value from nature, same time we are becoming weaker and weaker. Marx- we can free ourselves from wage and labour. People paying checks aren"t going to be socialist. Movement to socialism- cause revolution and war, Economy becoming unequal, if you overthrow the top, more control of capital. We know time is money-you snooze you lose. Organization of the working class, education of working class. Capitliasm is the creator that make socialism possible. Marx-world war 1- heavy industrial workers, went to war, fought the workers of everyone, workers of the world did not unite.
