Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Utopian Socialism, Hierarchical Organization, Industrial Revolution
10 Dec 2016
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Industrial revolution led to dangerous, difficult, undignified factory work. Basic goods should be produced with the aim of benefitting all. Against capitalism(cid:495)s unequal distribution of power (cid:498)scientific(cid:499) claims about historical change and the end of capitalism. Moral objections to exploitation, poverty, and greed. Replace capitalist inefficiency with expert planning and organizational hierarchy. 1849-1883: (cid:494)temporary(cid:495) exile in london political agitation: family and poverty, scholarly research. Hegel: history as the development of spirit, god comes to self-awareness. Feuerbach: we create god in our own image, we alienate our human capacities for knowledge, power, and goodness. Religion is created in response to poverty and suffering: can render you incapable of flourishing. Marx on religion (cid:498)religion is the opium of the people(cid:499: produces euphoria (cid:523)a (cid:494)buzz(cid:495)(cid:524, painkiller response to suffering. Worker(cid:495)s lives are subject to alien forces. Creative producers whose work is punishing, degraded, commodified. All of history up to now is the history of class struggle.
