In class we discussed Marx and watched a film, we talked about alienated labor, which states that the more the worker produces the more he falls under the power of his products. A worker becomes alienated from his product when he devotes all of his time to it. The object then does not belong to the man it belongs to itself because it now has all of the workers time. Marx gives many example of how his theory is put into play, one of his examples are that if a workers work has intelligence put into it, then the worker is witless. (988)
Marx also talks about the struggles between the Bourgeois and the Proletarians in the Manifesto of the Communist Party. A bourgeois is a class of modern capitals and in order for them to keep control they must keep revolutionizing instruments for production. The idea of revolutionizing the instruments for production has caused the Proletarians, the class of modern wage laborers, to have to fight to give their labor to obtain money. Bourgeois have not only been diminishing the amount of labor opportunities for workers but it has also turned family relations into money relations. The proletarians live only so long as they find work and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.
Marx’s’ other views include that the difference in age and sex have no social validity for the working class. He states that they are all instruments of labor, more or less expensive depending or their age or sex. Because of the machinery that is being built there is less need for laborers and when there is a need for labor the amount of money credited for the labor is lower. Workingmen of all countries UNITE!
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