POL_S 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
Document Summary
Reforms enacted by the state are enacted in the interest of capital: you can"t have workers working day and night or they"ll die so labor laws protect workers but really it"s so the bourgeoisie have rested workers. Legal reforms have prepared the seizure of political power by bourgeoisie. Class domination not abolished through legal reforms. What is her problem with grasping as a relation between the rich and. Luxemburg critiques: focus on relations of productions but just relations of wealth, focus on relations between labor and capital not just between rich and poor, focus on suppressing capitalist mode of production not mode of socialist (re)distribution. Focusing only on rich and poor leaves the system of exploitation in (cid:1) poor? place (cid:1) (cid:1) Harmony between capitalists and workers: clash between interests of the bourgeoisie and economic progress leads to anarchy. Luxemburg: anarchy grows collapse of capitalism. Bernstein: preservation of democracy needs suppression of socialist labor movement.
