SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Communist Manifesto, Fetishism, For Marx
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For marx just working for money-- and not for the creativity of labor (realizing. The production process thus controls the worker (the production process. Because workers are alienated in their role as producer, we are alienated. The possessor of capital (not just money) is transformed into anything money. Instead, the power of capital transforms what one wants into what one is. But for human qualities such as beauty, talent, or honesty (money is social, not. The power of money in bourgeois society can buy . One"s identity is determined not by characteristics or capacities. Capital is thus a universal medium capable of being exchanged not only for goods/services just economic) Introduction to economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844 your purpose or species being)-- is akin to selling your soul confronts us as an alienating power. Four kinds of alienation from what we produce control- where and how it is sold and its price address practical needs.
