The Socialist Outlook and the Labour Movement
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The Socialist Outlook with Labour Movement
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F. The nature of man and society
Man's motivation: gain profit vs. natural and social motives
Economic system embedded in social relations.
Marxism exaggerated the economic approach…
Man's unchanged nature (no need for change…)
the autonomous growth of the economic system
continuity and discontinuity
historical solepsism.
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VIII. Approach to the Social Sciences
[120] incentives relevant to work may arise from all quarters of the social compass. The practical importance of the issue in the present period of transition can hardly be exaggerated. Broadly, the worker's interest in the field of society and history will turn towards the question of human nature.
(r) There is a prospectiveness about the socialist approach to society - though and vision are biased in favour of the future as against the past. Hence the desire to learn of the laws of progress and evolution, the chances of change.
These angles of vision … […] The institutional separation of politics and economics tends here to submerge the unity of society. … a narrow utilitarian psychology threatens to absorb the variety of factors comprised in human nature. Nor does the emphasis on social change receive its due in the traditional teaching of the social sciences. […]
(s) The working class … […]
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