SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - The Communist Manifesto, Georg Simmel, Primitive Communism

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10 Dec 2013
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T/fs have given is for review and might be on test. Readings for next week (the introduction to superordination and. Hannah arendt (1906 - 1975): violence can always destroy power. Arendt is refers to a particular type of power: power based on coercion -- she means, using force or threatening to use force. Getting people to comply because we threatening them to hurt them and kill them. If a powerful person is using forces and violence against someone. Paradox: you can only get someone to do something as long as you can maintain their live and health if you want to abstract something from their labour. On the other hand, if that person is severe injured or killed, the powerful loses their power in the sense of you can no longer abstract things from them. The idea here is, if the powerful want to abstract something from a weak, they had to observe certain restrain.

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