alienation of work: seeds for a communist revolution
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Alienation of Work: Seeds for a Communist Revolution
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Concepts & Contributions
• Society is divided into two major classes
• 1. Proletariat: The working class (creators of the means of production)
• 2. Bourgeoisie: The owners of capital (owners of the means of production)
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Class Consciousness
• One’s relative position to means of production• A common identification among members of a
class• Marx stressed workers needed to be
conscious of their class• Workers of the World Unite!
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False Consciousness
• The inability to see where your best interests lay
• Workers needed to rid themselves of false consciousness
• Who controls property forms basis for class formation and struggle
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Alienation
• Separation of a person’s affections from an object.
• Example: You feel no connection with something you are producing
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Alienation in Marx’s Theory
• Alienated From:• Objects Produced
• Process of Production
• Themselves
• Fellow Workers
• How?• Do not own what they
produce.• Work satisfies needs of
capitalists.• Monotonous work limits
growth and potential.• Isolation from/Direct
competition with fellow workers
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Communism
• Stressed abolishment of private property
• Means of production shared by public
• Stressed human potential
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Elimination
• Needed to eliminate alienation, division of labor, and private property
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Revolution!
• A worldwide revolution would occur in which the workers would overthrow the capitalists and create a classless society.
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CONCEPTS & CONTRIBUTIONSCOMMUNISM
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Communist Manifesto Questions
• 1. According to Marx, is class struggle new in industrialized society?
• 2. How are workers organized according to Marx?
• 3. Why should workers not like this system of organization?
• 4. What must workers do to better their lives according to Marx?
• 5. What do the workers have to lose?