PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour, October Revolution
14 Dec 2016
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Marx & engels: the communist manifesto (p. 714-737) Humans as productive and creative: marx: different understanding of politics because of his different understanding of human being. So the soviet revolution cannot be regarded as a marxist revolution since capitalism had not been prominent yet. Capitalist production is founded upon the alienation and exploitation of laborers. What materials were incorporated to create it: the value of laboring power is the value of labour that is required to produce the necessities in life, children and necessities for these children. Surplus value: extra value that is received from a commodity. What do the communists stand for: single set of laws, tariffs for any particular country, centralization of power, overthrow the bourgeois supremacy, abolition of private property. The free development of each and the free development of all: united interest and opposition, direct struggle against the instruments of production.
