PHIL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodity Fetishism, Labour Power, European Cooperation In Science And Technology
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Marx thinks that capitalism is a mode of production that puts human beings in a distinct kind of relationship with other human beings via production. Not just differently, but he thinks there is something problematic in how we relate to production and capitalism. One of the things that marx comes back to, again and again, is production!!! Production is what makes us distinctive as a species. We produce a system of production, produce and reproduce. Done in a way that is social. How we mediate with other human beings and nature! Production takes a form that is at odd with our relationships with one another and nature. Something that is antagonistic, or anti-human . He sees this thing where there"s a sort of fundamentalism for labour in humanity. A significant alienation occurs for the worker. There is a disconnection to the product in the worker is losing a relationship to the labour process and determination value.
