SOC 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Customer Service, The Communist Manifesto, For Marx
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Capitalism destroys human nature: creativity, altruism. Capitalism prevents realizing species-being: no control over product, human actions no different from a machine > dehumanization, promotes competition over cooperation. For marx, working for money rather than for the creativity of labor is akin to selling your soul. Power differential in economy creates hierarchy: those who give orders, those who obey orders. Work processes divided into repeatedly-performed specialized tasks (i. e. assembly line) Alienation = separation from one"s humanity and creative potential. From ones own species-being, ones role as a producer. From other social beings: coworkers, competition, peers. From the work process: not having control over the work process. How you do it: factory workers - monopolized and. From the product one produces: where and how its sold/its price, no control about product. From the rest of humanity the process of production: the object of ones labor, one"s species-being leads to alienation from the rest of humanity.
