ISS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mahatma Gandhi
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Own the means of production vs only own thier own labor. Captialism forces people to do what type of jobs highly specialized. Workers are forced to sell their labor in an alientating process. Private property si the result of an alienated labor process. Workers become alienated from: their own productive activity, object of thier labor, their fellow workers. In competition for scarce resouces such as promotions and keeping thier jobs: our own human potential. What does marx believe about the capitalist system: it is inherintly evil, it will always be unequal. Close a lot of mom & pop stores. Ceo and owners take too much and leave little to the workers. "we proceeded from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property, the seperation of labour, capital and land, and of wages, profit of capital and rent of land--likewise division of labour, competition, the concept of exchange value, etc.