Marx and Capitalism
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According to Marx, capitalism has commodified people by turning them into commodities. MarxÆs argument is that labor does not only produce commodities like clothing or coffee; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts). The bourgeois system has developed to the point that laborers are a ôcommodity,ö selling their labor power much like a farmer sells a crop of oranges. This creates a condition in which labor power (human life) is subject to free market forces. People and machines are one and the same. Laborers who must sell themselves piecemeal ôare a commodity like every other article of commerceö (Communist Manifesto, 168).At one time, families worked on their own as a self-sufficient unit to meet their basic needs such as shelter, food and clothing. This was a relationship unblemished by commerce. With the advent of Capitalism and industry, however, the family producing unit was broken up, and people went to work individually for others. By entering the commercial relationship
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