POL309Y5 Lecture Notes - Constant Capital, Aggregate Demand, Business Cycle
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Agrees that humans are interdependent, but denies any economic laws, change as mode of production changes. Human beings are unique in their capacity for creativity ( to project the future and make it happen) We transform nature, take raw materials, and manipulate them and transform in order to create a second nature i. e. buildings and transportation etc. the second nature brings about a social dimension (the class structure) Although we ourselves create this second nature, we let it operate beyond our control. Communism will bring about the conscious control through deliberate reason. Destiny of humans is to create our own destiny, and freedom means self-determination within a social project upon which we rationally agree. Architect: bee makes hive from instinct, architect out of consciousness. Labourers are at a disadvantage, and stripped from their essence by capitalism, because they have to sell their labour ( dehumanization)
