Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Utopian Socialism, Common Ownership, Hierarchical Organization
18 Nov 2018
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Lecture 19: socialism 1 (thursday, november 15, 2018) Key ideas: core socialist themes, early socialism, karl marx. Thomas moore 1478-1535: against poverty and inequality, abolish money and private property, no more greed, pride or envy without money, con ict and inequality are unnatural humans create them. Saint simon: class based historical stages (h&g -> peasant, farmers -> workers, belief based economic systems (property rights, rule of law-> capitalism, these both replace capitalist ine ciency (poverty, exploitation) with expert planning and organizational hierarchy (rationalization) Robert owen: human nature is malleable agreed with fourier, capitalism is a structure that rewards greed and sel shness greed is good , to combat the capitalist structure produce cooperatively for the public. Key ideas: alienation; disorienting sense of inclusion, what makes me human, famous rally: workers of the world unite. Themes in marxism: religion, alienation, history, exploitation, class struggle, state and revolution, human nature.
