estranged labour critical review
Critical review
Introduction – Estranged labor
In his writing of Estranged labour, Marx considers labour to be a conscious act, not just a physical. He compares the situations under feudal and capitalist societies. Through labour Marx believes, human beings perform three funcions: derive their subsistence and survival; establish a relationship with their product; use the productive labour in their lives. (sidvents, 2013)
Main body- Alienation (criticize in the main body and sum it up in the conclusion) for quotations try to put it in your own words, power phrase
1) Estrangement of the worker from his product; Workers suffer from being ‘alienated’, and impoverishment due to the political economy of private ownership, society is divided into classes. “Political economy does not disclose the source of the division between labour and capital, and between capital and land” (p. 32).
“The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object”. This is because the worker’s labour is invested into the object, however as he does not own the fruits of his labour, which the capitalism appropriates from him. “Labour’s product—confronts it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer” (p. 32). The more the labour produces the more he becomes estranged.
“With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity” (p. 32). He shrinks in comparison to the world of objects that he created but belong to capitalism.
2) Estrangement of the worker from the activity of production; work that the worker performs does not belong to him, therefore suggesting a loss of his ‘self’.
3) Alienation from “species-being”, in the system of private ownership and the division of labour, the worker is estranged from his identity and purpose of life for the human species.
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Introduction – Estranged labor
In his writing of Estranged labour, Marx considers labour to be a conscious act, not just a physical. He compares the situations under feudal and capitalist societies. Through labour Marx believes, human beings perform three funcions: derive their subsistence and survival; establish a relationship with their product; use the productive labour in their lives. (sidvents, 2013)
Main body- Alienation (criticize in the main body and sum it up in the conclusion) for quotations try to put it in your own words, power phrase
1) Estrangement of the worker from his product; Workers suffer from being ‘alienated’, and impoverishment due to the political economy of private ownership, society is divided into classes. “Political economy does not disclose the source of the division between labour and capital, and between capital and land” (p. 32).
“The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object”. This is because the worker’s labour is invested into the object, however as he does not own the fruits of his labour, which the capitalism appropriates from him. “Labour’s product—confronts it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer” (p. 32). The more the labour produces the more he becomes estranged.
“With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity” (p. 32). He shrinks in comparison to the world of objects that he created but belong to capitalism.
2) Estrangement of the worker from the activity of production; work that the worker performs does not belong to him, therefore suggesting a loss of his ‘self’.
3) Alienation from “species-being”, in the system of private ownership and the division of labour, the worker is estranged from his identity and purpose of life for the human species.
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