GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, False Consciousness, Class Conflict
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Rich are 20% of the population and own 67. 4% of wealth. Rich have a headstart against the rest of the population. Which increases social inequalities as time passes. Linear progress development = not ending and always marching forward. Marxists seek emancipation while liberals seek freedom. From negative freedom (classical liberals) to positive (welfare liberals) to emancipation (marxists) Man not as a mean of production. Theory of consequences regarding the proletariat in capitalism. Work is the way humans find true meaning to interact with the world and survive. Worker is matwhat defines us many do it because they have no choice: they do not like it. Erialized and exploited to extract surplus value from his labour. How do products become to being to then be sold and generate profit. Contradictions of owning humans as means of productions led to revolutions which in turn resulted in a new social order where there was another class being exploited.
