Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes - Chapter Nov 21: Wage Labour, Proletarian Revolution, Gotha Program

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Scott Schaffer

Document Summary

Critique of the gotha program (marx: 1. In proportion as labour develops socially and becomes thereby a source of wealth and culture, poverty and destitution develop among the workers, and wealth and culture among the non-workers: 2. In present day society, the instruments of labour are the monopoly of the capitalist class; the resulting dependence of the working class is the cause of misery and servitude. The right of the producers is proportional to the labour they supply, the equality consists in the fact that measurement is made with an equal standard, labour: equal right is an unequal right for unequal labour. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby. The latter distribution is a feature of the mode of production itself. If the elements of production are so distributed, then the present day distribution of the means of consumption results automatically.