PSCI 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Political Action Committee, Revolutionary Vanguard, Proletariat
5 Sep 2016
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All of humanity should be liberated, but we are also beings in our own right. Estranged labor not only alienates us from society, but from ourselves as well. When we do not need to work to have our needs met, we can choose what to do with our time, but we can"t be lazy. Do we need a communist party: we need a vanguard to help raise consciousness for the proletariat class (pg. Similar to burke that the present has elements of both the past and future, therefore, we can have some confidence in predicting the future (pg. Capitalism is the origin of what will happen next (this is different from marx). Dictatorship of the proletariat begins with bourgeoisie society, then becomes the dictatorship of the proletariat (socialism), then finally becomes a higher phase of communism. Bourgeoisies democracy is only for the right minority: ex. Super pacs, voter i. d. laws, and interest groups.
