POLS 3040 Lecture : POLS 3040 Marx 2nd lecture.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3040
• Professor: Michelle Mawhinney

Document Summary

Will look at marx"s" materialistic approach similar to hobbes. The capital marx work, links very similar to his early writings on labour, the potentiality of labour, conditions and use of labour in capital society ( in notes, m = marx) Conclusion : alienated labour (from early writings) a. ) Marx critique of hegelianism, pe , abstraction of both. Marx takes this and applies to bourgeois economics and to the hegealians; to marx alienation becomes more nuanced in capital. 1844 manuscript, transformative , marx says labour should be expression of our free humanity, our life activity, our species being. This is what labour is and should be, but under capitalism it becomes a conversed activity that produces that alien" force over us. From m perspective, political economy cannot see beneath the surface, it cannot grasp the economic system it pretends to analyze; it takes certain facts as given"s, no attempt to look at history or what power relations go into this.