Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Friedrich Engels, Surplus Labour, Labour Power
6 Dec 2017
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Creating producers whose work is punishing, degrading and commodified. Workers lives are subject to alien forces. Alienation from the product: people are removed from their trades. Alienation from product activity: divided labour. Alienated from species being: capacity to work, more specifically social constructive activities. All of history up to now is the history of class struggle. History is the growth of human productive power. Our production methods develop within economic structures, slavery, feudalism, capitalism. Economic structures have characteristics relations of production: do they help grow or impede on growth. Society is like a three level building: legal and political superstructure (3, relations of production (2, forces of production (1) The 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.
