Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Class Consciousness, False Consciousness, Productive Forces

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1849 1883: temporary" exile in london; political agitation, family and poverty, scholarly research. We create god in our own image. We alienate our human capacities for knowledge, power, and goodness. Created in response to poverty and suffering. Religion is the opium of the people; produces euphoria, painkiller; can render you incapable of flourishing. Creative producers whose work is punishing, degrading, commoditized. Workers" lives are subject to alien forces. 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) Economic structures have characteristics relations of production . Society is like a three-level building: legal and political superstructure relations of production; relations of production; forces of production. Level of development of productive forces explains the nature of the economic structure. Economic structure determines the legal and political superstructure. Spawned from the cruel treatment of workers due to capitalism.

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