I thought Marx's Wage Labour and Capital was much more interesting and easier to understand than the previous reading. In this section, Marx attacks the idea of competition, division of labor, capital growth, and the injustice that workers must face as a result of them. Marx says that even with capital growth that would ideally benefit the working class, "the antagonism between his [the workers] interests and the interests of the bourgeoisie" still exist and that "profit and wages remain as before in inverse proportion" (211). Underlying all this, Marx explains how competition serves only to "rob capital of the golden fruits of this [production] power by bringing the price of the commodities back to the cost of production" (214) and amo
Marx also criticizes division of labor, calling its effects "evil" (215) and claiming the idea of wanting to do whatever he wanted to such as "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening" (160), but he ignores the fact that not everyone is capable at doing all those things and that some will be better than others at certain tasks and that if they wanted to capitalize on their skills, they would exploit their own skills for their own good. (I found the rest of this section, The German Ideology, rather confusing especially when he talks about consciousness and the four historical relationships and the division of labor together).
ng workers, causes a decrease in wages (215). However, competition also results in
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