GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commodity Fetishism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Barter
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Karl marx (1818-1883: german philosopher, sociologist, journalist. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life" (karl marx: marx and engels were focusing on the working class mainly when speaking of social revolution. Modern times (chaplin: daily experience of the worker is depicted as workers being treated as animals their bodies are constrained by the labour process. His relation to the workers is strictly that of authority ordering them around, delegating tasks. There are folks who are worse of (lumpenproletariat) e. g. ) criminals. Ontario"s teacher union protests the government"s legislature to prohibit teachers from going on strike: unions are essential in a democracy, what happens when the government moves to legislate workers back to work. It is not the best solution in the long run for democracies. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle communist.
