Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Surplus Labour, Productive Forces, Materialism
4 Jul 2013
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Basic goods should be produced with the aim of benefitting all. Against capitalism and its unequal distribution in power. Industrial revolution led to dangerous, difficult, undignified factory work. Moral objections to exploitation, poverty and greed. Scientific claims about historical change and the end of capitalism. Abolish money and private property: no more pride, greed and envy. Class based historical stages: we can identify the main features of what is happening in the world, feudalism (nobles, peasants, lords, capitalism (owners, workers) Replace capitalist inefficiency and waste with expert planning. Get rid of government and replace with administrations. Bad conduct stems from a corrupt social system: people break the law and steal things, where does this bad conduct come from, society made me do it. 1849 to 1883, temporary exile in london. Communist manifesto: part of revolutionary socialism that became his main activity.
