POL410H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Determinism, Class Conflict, Neoliberalism
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Need to discuss liberalism and neoliberalism and marxism, micro social approaches? make sure to use counterarguments to prove your argument is strong. Don"t sit on the fence read rostow, chapter 2 & 3. Big difference between marxists wanting communism and marxists though. General critique of capitalism, believed capitalism was problematic because it exploits the labour of the workers and the gain is in the uppers sphere. Workers are objectified by their own labour and become alienated by their own products. Workers do all the work but the owners of the means of production who get the profit. If a machine can do it for quicker and cheaper than a person then workers lose their jobs, people then cannot afford the material goods. Says marx was right but he didn"t go far enough, capitalism isn"t just in countries it"s part of a global system. Lays out what marxist program is, takes uncreative way as putting forward these ideas.
