SJST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: God Forbid, Precarious Work, Neoliberalism
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Continue for marx (bolded words are things he says to write down, or points from the sheet on the overhead) Another word for socialism is communism what he really meant was communalism (community) Socialism for marx is workers collectively own the tools, mills, factories. That means there is no longer a group called the owners and the workers, they are all on the same level they own the tools of production. Communalism is his form of social justice free to operate, free to produce. Capitalism is a barrier to human agency. The second point: marx argues that the revolution would happen not in backward countries like russia but in countries like u. k. No one is willingly going to give up the factories and mills. Marx was historically wrong, the first big labour resolution happened in russia (in 1970 russia had the first revolution) They had a soviet a group of counsels making decisions for workers (soviet was the workers counsel)