PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Feudalism, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat
11 Jan 2017
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Page 476 the bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production . What is he saying about nature of capitalism: it"s a mode of production that is constantly transitioning, something happens to workers that shows them their reality they"re faced with their real conditions. Everything that defines our social life has a tendency to disappear under capitalism. Page 475 the bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand : has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment" . This labour power is the one thing which makes us fundamentally human. The human"s job preoccupies itself with constructing/building the world as a whole. Modes of production all employ labour, deploy human power the effects that they have on human labour is what differs: capitalism, feudalism. Employing labour for another making something (a slave) and then handing it over.
