SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consciousness Raising, Second-Wave Feminism, Tangled
22 Nov 2017
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Cr t ques from left & r g t, academ c, profess onal, pol t cal, ns ders, commun ty, etc . Policy making slow failing to address problems. Which issues and/or communities need support strained consensus. Community activists, welfare-oriented liberals, social democrats, labour leaders, marxists. Concerns: secondary labour force, downsizing, cuts, further collapse of economy. Favour problems for workers/ middle=class: no structural change with humanitarian rhetoric. Left group says t ey s ouldn"t do t at: allowed elites to blame welfare for large deficits, while hiding their benefits. Shift from organized capitalism to disorganized changed way working/ middle classes could fight for rights & social security. Right: business people, focus on the economy. Conservat ves, bus ness nterests/ assoc at ons, econom c adv sors : eg: canadian federation of independent business. Vision= to achieve society based on free markets, private property rights, individual responsibility & limited gov.
