Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bourgeoisie, Human Nature, Class Conflict
19 Sep 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Community: social creatures engaging in collective effort for the common good. Replace capitalist inefficiency with expert planning and organizational hierarchy. Utopian socialist ideal: stateless, free cooperation for the common good. We alienate our human capacities for knowledge, power and goodness. Religion is created in response to poverty and suffering. Creative producers who work are punishing, degraded, commodified. All of history up to now is the history of class struggle. History is the growth of human productive power (the productive forces" tend to develop) Level of development of productive forces explains the nature of the economic structure. Economic structure determines the legal and political superstructure. Karl marx on exploitation, class struggle, the state and revolution. Capitalist profit is the surplus value created by workers. History is the history of class struggle: under capitalism, it is the bourgeoisie (capitalists) vs. proletarians (workers. Conflicts of interest are linked to our relation to the means of production: the forte communist society will be classless.
