Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Ownership, Hierarchical Organization, Utopia
16 Dec 2015
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Promotes social ownership of [pep: property: owned by society, equality of effective power, public good: aim to benefit all. Against capitalism"s unequal distribution of power (economic system) Cooperation > competition to change human motivation. Scientific claims about historical change and the end of. Socialism will be the next step from capitalism. Thomas more: no property rights, utopia without conflict. Sought communal ownership to overcome pride, greed, and envy. Saint-simon sought to: replace capitalist inefficiency and waste with expert planning and organizational hierarchy, industrialism: working class should be recognized as an integral part of society. Threat is free loaders: class-based historical stages, belief-based economic system. The notion of rights is a social construct: laissez faire economy with minimal intervention, no objection to capitalism as a whole, inspiration of many political philosophers. Emphasized evils of commercial society and looked forward to a stateless socialist utopia that would change human lives for the better. Bad conduct stems from a corrupt social system.
