Module 2, Lesson 2.3: The Ugly: Common Wealth, Private Appropriations

Written By SCEPA

In this third lesson of Module 2, Associate Professor Paulo dos Santos draws on a large number of contributions to consider a vital question about the social content of capitalist economies: In what ways do those economies rely on extractions from certain social groups and on individual appropriations from our collective or common resources? In other words, to what extent do profits depend on simply taking things from people and from the planet?

By the end of this video (5/5), learners will be able to:

  • Describe how profits are sustained by appropriations from our common, planetary resources.

  • Explain how our social decisions about where to place our cities and productive resources make it possible for some to generate incomes and gains in wealth from ownership of land.

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