SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC207 Lec 2
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Background hegel: alienation from product, alienation from process of production, alienation from species-being, alienation from others. Conclusions from hegel: masters are not all powerful => completely vulnerable. If servants go on strike => masters" entire lifestyle will crumble. Only servants will survive and keep the systems going. Masters are slaves to the systems they created => completely dependent on slaves: servants are actually in power in the systems. Control the factories, transportation, food, water etc. If they stop working, the system collapses: find a system that everyone could be masters. We now live in a service economy in canada. We must recognize our co-dependency on others" labour. By not recognizing other people"s work => highly alienated society. Workers become commodities => everything you buy is a commodity. When people become a commodity => alienation occur. When someone sell themselves for wages => turned into a commodity that can be bought and sold.
