Means of production marx1/20/2024 ![]() And it actually has quite a bit to do with what Marx thought about exploitation, when you say, “This is an exploitative relationship.” Right? So the term is with us. Occasionally you feel I have been exploited. And it’s also something which has very much entered the public discourse. But there are still quite a few theorists around here who are attracted to the idea of exploitation and try to re-conceptualize the notion of exploitation in one way or another. I think there are few people who would accept his theory of exploitation the way how it was formulated. Whether it is right or wrong, this is another question. ![]() That is undoubtedly Marx’s major contribution to social theory. Marx felt this is ready to be printed and it was ready to be printed for sure.Īnd this is now his major contribution, the theory of exploitation. It’s not a messy text like the Paris Manuscript or The German Ideology or the Grundrisse. He offers a very coherent, very cogent argument. And in the Kapital, only the first volume was finished by him, and it was the only first volume what he thought was ready for publication, and came out in 1867. And he also considers that in The German Ideology he became too deterministic history is more open than he may have believed.Īnd then finally he finishes the book–at least the first volume of the book he always wanted to write– Das Kapital. Then you read the Grundrisse, in which he kind of–now private property is in the central place, but he tries to bring back the idea of alienation. The division of labor is still important and private property does not get the centrality of the analysis, what it’s supposed to have for the theory. Right? Too much under the influence of Adam Smith. Right? He turns into a historical materialist in The German Ideology, but does not quite get it yet. The central concept is still alienation, a Hegelian concept. Right? In The Paris Manuscripts, the first attempt to write a big work, we saw him as a Hegelian. So we went around different epochs of Marx. Whether he arrived at truth, that’s another question, but he was desperately searching for it. The major– my major aim so far in this course was to shake a little the stereotypes which was in your head about Marx, to show you that Marx was a much more complex thinker, full with contradictions, and in a search for truth. And after a long detour we are finally at the Marx you are probably the most familiar with, or the kind of Marx you have heard the most about. Marx predicted that this “middle class” will disappear instead it grew in size over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.įoundations of Modern Social Theory SOCY 151 - Lecture 13 - Marx's Theory of Class and ExploitationĬhapter 1. This class dichotomy did not describe accurately social structure in Marx time, when a sizable class of self-employed existed. Marx argues that the capitalist system forces people into one of two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The worker is exploited when he does not keep or control the value created by his own labor power. The capitalist compensates the laborer enough for his labor power to reproduce the commodity (the labor power), but the laborers’ power produces additional value: a surplus value for the owner. ![]() Marx argues that what sets the capitalist mode of production apart from the commodity mode of production is not only the accumulation of money the capitalist mode of production is characterized by the use of labor power as a commodity to create more value. He developed these in The Communist Manifesto, the Grundrisse and Das Kapital. In order to move from a theory of alienation to a theory of exploitation, Marx develops a concept of class and of the capitalist mode of production. Lecture 13 - Marx's Theory of Class and Exploitation Overview ![]()
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