PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wage Labour, Political Economy
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The connection (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) this (cid:449)hole estra(cid:374)ge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d the (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) [ ] do (cid:374)ot let us go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to a fi(cid:272)titious primordial condition as the political economist does, when he tries to explain. Such a primordial connection explains nothing; it merely pushes the question away into a grey nebulous distance. The economist assumes in the form of a fact, of an event, what he is supposed to deduce namely, the necessary relationship between two things between, for example, division of labour and exchange. Thus the theologian explains the origin of evil by the fall of man that is, e assu(cid:373)es as a fa(cid:272)t, i(cid:374) histori(cid:272)al for(cid:373), (cid:449)hat has to (cid:271)e e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)ed, [ ] we pro(cid:272)eed from an actual e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) fa(cid:272)t. (cid:863) Workers (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e poorer the (cid:373)ore (cid:449)ealth (cid:894)or, later, (cid:862)surplus (cid:448)alue(cid:863)(cid:895) the(cid:455) produ(cid:272)e. Labour does not simply produce commodities but produces the labourer as a commodity (contained within the later concept of (cid:862)free la(cid:271)our(cid:863)(cid:895)
