SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: For Marx, Debunker, Strouss
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Classical soc october 26 lecture 6. When you"re at work, you"re not producing things according to your ideas or vision, and you"re not working to directly satisfy your needs. If i"m making bread at home, i"m making it so that i can eat bread. But if i"m making bread at a bread factory, i"m making it for other people. Instead i"m working for the owner, who pays me a wage, in return for the right to use my labor in any way that he/she wants. I have sold my activity to someone else. I"m not expressing myself, i"m expressing the owner. As the dol happens, my own feeling to my activity in the overall creation of a final product goes down. If i"m just tightening bolts on an engine doesn"t allow me to see the overall production of a car. What could"ve been the highest expression in the world becomes meaningless: from the product.
