ANTH 301 Lecture 4: Marxism Alienation of Labor
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Owners of means of production profit at expense of surplus value" that labor crates. Labor is only thing of value ******* Ex: when product is just wire, owner can"t profit from. Once people use their labor on (ex: cut, shape, weld) it is now worth something. Marx argument: would have nothing of value were it nof for the labor of the people who put those things together*** Owner itself has not spent one minute assembling a pin. Difference for what cost of making something and what sell for is the surplus value only owner benefits not the people who made it: industrialism. Workers would own the means of production and therefore no longer suffer from alienation from their labor. In this state (both sense of the world) workers own means of production means that factories own/run by committee of workers. Some examples today: belgium fat tire beer, celestial tea, winco.
