Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Productive Forces, Utopian Socialism, Hierarchical Organization
26 Feb 2016
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Basic goods should be produced with the aim of benefitting all. Industrial revolution led to dangerous, difficult, undignified factory work. Scientific claims about historical change and the end of capitalism. Abolish money and private property (the root evil) Replace capitalist inefficiency with expert planning and organizational hierarchy. Changing human nature (it is subject to change) The study of god is the study of human beings because we created him. We alienate our human capacities for knowledge, power and goodness. Religion is created in response to poverty and suffering. Creative producers whose work is 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.
