SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reductionism, Bourgeoisie, Marxism

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Karl marx, class struggle: simplification thesis a) Capitalism has simplified class antagonisms : proletariat as the universal class a) All previous historical movements were movements of minorities or in the interest of minorities. The proletariat movement is the self-conscious independent movement of the immense majority in the interest of the immense majoritythe proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class : role of communism a) The organization of proletarians into a class and consequently into a political party is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers and themselves . Capitalism will always undermine the profit of the worker for the sake of their own personal gain. the capitalist holds money in order to do as he/she sees fit in order to produce more surplus and more profit. One of the things that people have to do is understand their condition, we become aware of our situation through intellectuals who come to explain to them what their conditionis.

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