Philosophy 2074F/G Chapter : Estranged Labor.doc
31 Oct 2014
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From political economy itself, using its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity, and moreover the most wretched commodity of all. Political economy proceeds from the fact of private property. Political fails to explain the reason for the division between labor and capital. Exchange appears to political economy as an accidental fact. The only wheels which political economy sets in motion are greed, and the war of the avaricious--competition. Political economy assumes the necessary relationships for example, between the division of labor and exchange as facts and events. The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and extent. The devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things. The worker is related to the product of labor as to an alien object. The greater his activity, therefore, the fewer objects the worker possesses.
