PHIL 1100 Chapter Notes -Cretinism
13 Dec 2013
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The more wealth the worker produces, the more his production increases in power and scope, the poorer he becomes. The extinction of value from the world of things is directly proportional to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces itself and the worker as a commodity and it does so to the same extent as it produces commodities in general. The object which labor produces the product of labor confronts it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer. Within the political economy, this realization of labor appears as the loss of reality of the worker, objectification appears as the loss of the object and bondage to it; appropriation appears as alienation, as externalization. The realization of labor appears as the loss of reality by the worker to such an extent that he loses reality to the point of starvation.
