Another compelling Sociology class this morning. We've started on Conflict Theories, though we started Marxism last Friday in Politics (where I excelled :D), so it's triply old-hat for me.
We were talking about whether we thought Communism would be a good thing - everyone said yes. Then the lecturer asked some rhetorical suggestive questions (eg, Wouldn't people just not bother working?) and suddenly everyone has awakened to the idea that it would really be boring. These people can't think for themselves. Being the resident Marxist (among my duties for tomorrow's Politics class is to print off copies of The manifesto), I must tear their arguments apart through quoting their very own words as evidence against their positions.
For example; 'People feel uncomfortable on benefits because they feel as if they aren't contributing to society' and when discussing motivation in Communism, 'People don't need the money so they won't bother working'. What?
You're saying capitalism is about advancing society and your argument against Marxism is that there isn't a monetary incentive. Monetary incentive IS why you have shitty jobs! Are you under the illusion it's because you're helping society? You're killing it at an accelerating pace.
You truly are under False Consciousness even when you claimed not to be at the start of the class.
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