SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labour Power, Wage Labour, The Surplus
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This is where we see the sociological side of marx"s theory. Capitalists own the surplus. lord"s land and 4 days in the serf"s land. I don"t need the 4 days in the lord"s land but it: for marx history unfolds in the mode of production, comparison of the feudal and capitalist modes of production. Capitalist modes of production: appropriation of surplus through rent, surplus labor is visible: e. g. , 2 days in the. Feudalism: pay rent (in the form of animal, crops/kind, and labor) creates surplus labor. the necessary and surplus labor are. Separated in space and in time: exploitation is visible exploitation takes place in form of paying rent to the lord. Serfs give rent to the lord because they were given the land to be cultivated by the lord. they produce the necessary labor for existence, for you and your family to survive.
