PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Climax, The Communist Manifesto, Aristocracy
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Week 11a marx alienated labour: estranged labour or alienated labour is an excerpt from. Labour and capitalism: under capitalism, labor is treated as a commodity that can be appropriated. This appropriation turns into the alienation of the worker for the more he creates the less he has for himself: this results in a slavery of the worker to his product. But when they are separated from meaningful work they become nonhuman and animal only. Human nature, animals and species being: according to marx, man is a species-being. Week 11b marx communist manifesto: basic historical claim: the history of humanity has been a history of class struggles, account of human nature: humans are productive beings who achieve fulfillment through work or productive activity. Normative claims: society should be structured to allow all citizens to participate in intellectual or productive work, private property should be eliminated in favor of public control of the means of production.
