SOSC 1000 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
1 Dec 2013
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Capitalism and alienation goes together, the lower class & upper class are alienated, says. 1) the concentration of the means of production in fewer and fewer hands. In capitalism, the big fish eat the little fish. Fewer people should own the stores, factories, etc. This means more people sell their labour in cheap wages to make a living. 2) division of labour: in capitalism, this results in alienated labour. 3) the development of markets in land, labour, and commodities. Under capitalism, we are all a part of a labour market. Human beings become commodities, we are bought and sold. There are 4 manifestations of alienation according to rhinehard. Self: under capitalism, we are alienated from our self. We are working for instrumental purposes, we are following, not doing anything creative in the environment. We are in constant competition against others during work. Product: we are alienated from the product we produce.
