SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - 2-Step Garage
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Reason for alienations is because they work in a system and not being their true. Non alienated labour; turning things into something else to satisfy our needs: objectification. Artist making a song: we get new needs and new desires, cycle starts again, changes you. Time spent at work is time thinking of being at home. 4 aspects of creating alienation: productive activity. Workers are not at home with themselves when they"re at work. When they"re at home, they are not their true self because they are their. Mystification; people believe what they want to believe in. Marx feels like he needs to show people what things really are (demystification) What seems to be natural and real, is actually artificial and not real. Marx is trying to show that it was unreal and totally bizarre: commodities have ghostly qualities, capitalism is crazy. You must show them that it is mysterious. 2 ways of why they are mysterious (pg302)
