Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Utopian Socialism, Hierarchical Organization, Industrial Revolution
18 Nov 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Basic goods should be produced with the aim of benefitting all. Property should be owned by society: rejection of private property. Against capitalism and its unequal distribution of power industrial revolution led to dangerous, difficult, undignified factory work: rejection of conditions under which people produce and live. Moral objections to exploitation, poverty, greed: there s something unjust about capitalism. Scientific claims about historical change and the end of capitalism: social science can explain where we are and where we re going (according to marx) Speaker of english house of commons judicially murdered for treason and became catholic saint/martyr. Saint-simon (1760-1825) founder of almost religious kind of utopian sect of socialism. Class-based historical stages defined by different dominant classes: eg. feudalism, capitalism history displays a pattern (marching towards socialism. Belief-based economic systems: beliefs legitimize them. Replace capitalist inefficiency with expert planning and organizational hierarchy: anti-political: ideal society is beyond politics, coercive law will become unnecessary.
