PAP 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capital Accumulation, Proletariat, Labour Power
16 Feb 2018
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Forms of society rise and fall as they further and then impede the development of human productive power. Marxist analysis of society identifies two main social groups. People who earns their livelihood by selling their labour power and being paid a wage or salary for their labour and time. They have little choice but to work for capital because they have no other means from working independently: the bourgeoises or capitalists. People who gets their income not from labor as much as form the surplus value they appropriated from the workers who create wealth. The income of the capitalist therefore is based on their exploitation of the workers ( the proletariat) They extract production through labour from the worker. They are directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoises. Works become deprived: of the right to think for themselves as the directors of their own actions (and work):
