SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ion, Position Paper, Class Consciousness
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Alienation: vs. political economy, capitalism a) commodification of labor i. labor becomes a commodity following supply &demand b) bourgeois and proletarian i. ii. iii. fundamental class division of a capitalist society their opposition characterizes capital society the class differentiation will be simpler. petty bourgeois(cid:224) proletarian. simplifications of class structure, alienation/estrangement from: a) Proletarian marriage is closer to accomplish true love than bourgeois marriage: what community is, working class solidarity (which means that proletarians if necessary are willing to set aside their partial interests for the sake of the common, long term interests of the entire working class) e. g. unionized worker working with un unionized worker for the benefit of all. i. ii. Has class consciousness: a form of society towards which the socialist movement is struggling (characterized by the absence of private property thus any class divisions and alienation, absence of the state: society governs itself. ignorance of the importance of state could be the flaw of marx" writing.
