PHL317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Young Hegelians, Productive Forces, Bourgeoisie
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Your life would be better if you didn"t live in capitalism. We can do it in a way that"s good for us or not. We live to work, not work to live. This makes labour an expression of the type of being we are. But labouring under capitalism alienates us from it. The fact that we must do it makes us not want to. It is the material of your labour, the object of your labour and the instant of you labour. "in estranging from man (1) nature, and (2) himself, his own active functions, his life- activity, estranged labour estranges the species from man. It turns for him the life of the species into a means of individual life. First it estranges the life of the species and individual life, and secondly it makes individual life in its abstract form the purpose of the life of the species, likewise in its abstract and estranged form. "
