DVM2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Communist Manifesto, Proletariat, Productive Forces

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM2350
• Professor: Mahmoud Masaeli

Document Summary

Exploitation of workers long hours, low pay: they have no say in their working conditions. Absence of universal right to vote: he argues that all malaises are caused by a greedy capitalist system. Marx argues that all problems in society have been caused by the greedy nature of capitalism. The greedy nature of capitalism puts pressure on workers to reduce their wages: capitalists and workers are thrown together into relations of production. In the end a ght is created between workers and capitalists and the end of the battle is communist society. Marx argues that when you look at the course of history, it moves in a determinist way and ends at the victory of the workers in a communist society. Because of the absence of law that protects worker"s rights, workers are the victims: particularly cruelty of overseers that concerned marx.