PHIL-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Reproduction, Class Conflict, Proletariat
21 Aug 2017
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A specter is a ghost (dead but still kind of present: not completely making its appearance but everyone is feeling its presence. A floating signifier attaches to things without a concrete meaning: people were labeling people communists without really having a definition for the word, this work is a work of self-annunciation and analyzing the laws of communism/society. Whatever society you look at you, you cannot understand the history of it without seeing that it is based off the problem of class struggle. Bourgeoisie - the owners of the means of social reproduction: own the factories and the capital. Proletariat - the class of people who work but do not own the means of production. Marx says that the bourgeoisie is the most revolutionary class to date. Formal freedom - everyone so long as they have the human form are equally free.
