SOSC 1140 Lecture 7: Lecture 7

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: Cameron Johnston

Document Summary

Activity (work estranged from oneself; it belongs to someone else. Objectification: commodifation, reification, performance, specialization: commodification--what they produce is made into commodities, reification what are you what do you do in the system technology. Expansion of market cannot keep up with extension of production. What is the outcome of the contradiction in capitalist over production. Capitalism is the most productive system to have ever existed. The over productivity in the system goes to waste the fact of over productivity indicated that scarcity is a myth, poverty is organized wealth, and wealth is organized poverty. The purpose of work is to not work. The end for engels is new material conditions: freedo(cid:373) is freedo(cid:373), your free, you do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:449)ork if you do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to, the resolution to the contradiction to capitalism is the end of capitalism.