| Terry Eagleton Worker self management method for equity. Popular release generous egalitarianism as well as ugly racism and anger. Objections to Marx are almost all wrong. Most influential text of 19th, changed course of history and understanding of its course and what the economy is. Showed us what capitalism is – mode of production. This a critique of capitalism Chapter 3 Not just factory workers – class struggle just shifted. Capitalism changed so much, no longer applies. Marx predicted increase in white collar, showed history of change and argued that it would continue. Shift in attitude from 76-86. Shift to post-capitalism. Class struggle shifted, corps globalized. Migration of labor. System became manic cause lost war boom over. And find growth by squeezing the bird they shared with workers. Capital more concentrated and people think no way to fight. Scarcity largely the result of capitalism. Chapter 4 Never worked – only famine, oppression and broken economy. Capitalism forged in blood. Let plenty die preventable famines in late 90s killed millions in India, Russia. Africa, South Asia, South America. Capitalism kept alive only by wringing dry the workers. Affluence requires many more in poverty. Communism – dragged cheap housing, fuel, transport, healthcare, edu, solidarity. Going capital – joblessness, loss of social networks, women’s rights, law. Made most countries worse. Market – cooperation can be more efficient. Markets can work at higher level. Lay bare the social relations around goods. Check on planning. No classes, property. Social needs determines what is produced. Voted on from bottom up. Participatory economy. Private act anti-social as it pursues own interest. We will know we made progress when we gap back at the time when we allowed inducían agresiva greedy people to push their self interested mean spirited greed on all of us. Capitalist management requires great deal of time. Will social management really take more? Raymond Williams – Communications Chapter 5 Class struggle is not all history or cover everything. But rather the most important thing to history. Specific trajectory underlie history. Bound up in social forces. What is it fundamental. Faith, science, oppression of women? Translation from one phase of history to another. Ties class struggle to mide of production. Long term history of change. Anything that plays part in creating. Chapter 6 Utopía dream of harmony and wealth and peace. We are inquisitive, greedy, competitive. Self governing coop. Not depend on virtue. Each work for self realization in a system structured to bene all. La parking. Decentralize network of local self governing. community Admin by flexible elected network. Working class includes all those who sell their labor to capital. Who struggles under capital and have little control over the conditions of labor. This includes many white people. Capital exercises it power over the conditions of many people, most. Advanced science tech would change production. General social K becoming a productive force. Marx predicted worker profiles would change. His work helped us see how much it had changed. He didn’t think it fixed but nearly described his time. |