Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Surplus Labour, Universal Suffrage, Class Conflict

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Karl marx on exploitation, the state, and human nature. Capitalist profit is the surplus value created by workers. History is the history of class struggle. Conflicts of interest linked to our relation to the means of production. The state exists to deal with conflicts of interest generated by coercive surplus extraction. Mar(cid:454)(cid:859)s two a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts of the state: a committee for managing the common interest of the bourgeoisie (based on 19th-century. British politics: the state as an independent actor (based on 19th-century french and german politics) Revolution is likely in states that fail to integrate their excluded classes. Bis(cid:373)ar(cid:272)k(cid:859)s strateg(cid:455): bu(cid:455) off the worki(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) a lo(cid:455)al ar(cid:373)(cid:455) Universal suffrage could lead to the election of a socialist government. Creator of official marxism after mar(cid:454)(cid:859)s death i(cid:374) 1883. Anti-capitalist: supports collective control of the economy. Collective action to overcome undesirable consequences of individual actions.