SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Communist Manifesto, Krahn People, Profit Motive

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Lecture 3 karl marx 1818-1883: economic and philosophic manuscripts 1844 and the. Thorstein veblen (1899) the theory of the leisure class. The communist manifesto: reference all that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity (1982) Focus was on inequality, power, control and conflict (krahn, et al. For marx, just working for money and not for the creativity of labor is akin to selling your soul. The production process thus controls the worker; it confronts her as an alienating power: alienated labour/alienation, because the worker is alienated in her role as producer, she is alienated from the product that is produced. The wage earner spends two-thirds of his wakeful hours engaged in a meaningless activity, save its providing him with the means of subsistence. 2. their labour devoid of any meaning: fight to get their jobs (became alienated from fellow workers, unable to fulfill all the things we are truly capable of (vallas et al.

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