PHILOS 3YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Labour Power, Civil Society, Commodification
18 Feb 2020
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Doubtful about what the state can do in terms of responding / remedying the forces of. Economic and philosophic manuscripts: the four forms of alienation or estrangement: alienation of the product of labor. Selling one"s labor power on the market. One is alienated by the product of their work: Because your laboring activity has been purchased from you viz. a contract: everything they pour into their labor isn"t their own, it belongs to the capitalist. They harder they work, the more they immediately alienate themselves. Man (the worker) no longer feels himself his dwelling and in dressing up" (74) everything you do being instructed & directed from another: from the act of production within the labor processes. Your creativity can only happen in private life (at home) and not at work. The relation of the worker to his own activity neither depends on nor belongs to him" (74-75)
