SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Communist Manifesto, Body Plan, Bourgeoisie
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Key quotations from the economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844: alienated. The worker becomes an even cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. (43) Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. (43) Estranged labor turns thus: (3) man"s species being, both nature and his spiritual species property, into a being alien to him into a means to his individual existence. It estranges man"s own body form him, as it does external nature and his spiritual essence, his human being. (46) The alien being, to whom labor and the produce of labor belongs, in whose labor service is done and for whose benefit the produce of labor is provided can only be man himself. (47) By possessing the property of buying everything, by possessing the property of appropriating all objects, money is thus the object of eminent possession.
