Sociology - Karl Marx

What are the 4 types of alienation

• workers to product of labor

• worker to self

  • own life activity does not belong to worker

• worker to own humanity

• worker from others

 

Species being

• we make ourselves and creatively transform nature

• laboring activity is a part of human beings, but when it is owned by another class, and becomes used to sustain themselves 

What must we do to abolish alienation?

• private property

• capitalism

• private property is a social relationship

How does working harder bring down ur worth?

• when u work harder, your bringing down your worth, because your being paid the same regardless and your making the company more money

What makes capitalism inherently explosive?

• class relations

• bourgeoise control the labor process

• proletariat only have their labor power to sell

• the worker does not get their fair share - surplus profit

  • the diff between what they pay the workers and what the worth of thing of the thing the workers produce for them

  • product of the labor does not belong to the worker

  • their life capacities is being subordinated to their means of subsentence

Why does M believe capitalism needs to change?

• the B are on the top -> they own the means of production

  • hierarchical

  • private property

  • processing property and material, in where u can buy labor to make more money