PSY 4327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Proletariat, Decommodification, Noam Chomsky

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

From humanist marxist praxis group in the former yugoslavia. Problematic nature of self-management" when defined solely by workers" control & participation. Critiques soviet communism"s expression of dictatorship of the proletariat" as resulting in a centralised authoritarian state which is actually in the hands of a political bureaucracy (markovic, p. 162) Self-management as decentralisation self-management is a noble humanitarian idea but it cannot be brought to life because workers and ordinary citizens are not educated enough to run a modern state and a modern economy (ibid. ) Self-determination is a process in which conscious practical activity of human individuals becomes one of the necessary and sufficient conditions of individual and group life. So under what social conditions would the life of individuals and communities be less and less reified, less and less contingent upon external authority, and more and more self-determined? . Social processes must not be in the hands of institutions that have a monopoly on economic and political power .