Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Surplus Labour, Productive Forces, Class Conflict
25 Nov 2017
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Creative producers whose work is punishing, degraded, commodi ed. Workers" lives are subject to alien forces. All of history up to now is the history of class struggle. History is the growth of human productive power (the productive forces" tend to develop) Our production methods develop within economic structures: slavery, feudalism, capitalism. Economic structures have characteristic relations of production". Level of development of productive forces explains the nature of economic structure. Economic structure determines the legal and political superstructure. Capitalism will be replaced by communism and common ownership. Exploitation is the extraction of surplus labour. Capitalist pro t is the surplus value created by workers. History is the history of class struggle: under capitalism, it is the bourgeoisie (capitalists_ vs proletarians (workers) Con icts of interest are linked to our relation to the means of production: the future communist society will be classless.
