POLSCI 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, European Cooperation In Science And Technology, Supremacy Clause

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3Y03
• Professor: Nibaldo Galleguillos

Document Summary

Previous class: the first class struggle was between emerging bourgeoisie and nobility, working classes put forward democratic struggles that brought about so many rights, out of these struggles something quite remarkable happened. Liberal democracy implies there are some democratic values: democracy with full participation, our regimes are democratic liberalism, we live in a liberal society with some democratic features. Human rights and democracy are constantly evolving. Reaching the hybrid is not the apex of this evolution. Many more things have happened since the consolidation of a liberal democracy. Capitalist contradiction at the political level: while liberal democracy meant political equality, on the one hand, it also meant little in terms of economic and social equality (the egalitarian ideal) on the other hand. Capitalism has a tendency to go through ups and downs. Cycle of economic growth and prosperity followed by economic stagnation: crisis and expansion! Nature of a capitalist economic logic that has created these two conditions simultaneously!