PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wage Labour
3 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Critique of political economy private property wage labour division of labour exchange value value of something in market the worker sinks to the level of the commodity commodity is a thing to be exchanged. The whole of society must fall apart into the two classes - property owners and propertyless workers . Money-commodity-money commodity- a thing whose only value is to be exchanged bourgeois. [ ] we proceed from an actual economic fact. taking labour to market for other labour in self-interest capitalism critique: projects the truth, such as a way religion does this. This fact expresses merely that the object which labour produces - labor"s product - confronts it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer. The product of labor which has been embodied in an object, which has become material: it is the objectification of labor. The product is after all but the summary of the activity, or production.
