Karl Marx

Question 1

Alienated Labor

Answer 1

The result of the economic and social organization of capitalist production (division of labor)

Question 2

Alienation from products produced

Answer 2

Wage workers are alienated from the product of their labor.
A worker’s labor power is owned by the capitalist; and consequently the products of the workers labor belong not to the worker but to the capitalist who profits from them

Question 3

Alienation within the production process

Answer 3

Wage workers are actively alienated from the production process.
Labor is not for the worker an end in itself, freely chosen, but coerced by and performed for the capitalist; the worker is an object in the production process.

Question 4

Alienation of workers from their species being

Answer 4

By being reduced to their use-value (capitalist profit), workers are estranged from the creativity and higher consciousness that distinguish humans from animals.

Question 5

Alienation of individuals from one another

Answer 5

The competitive production process and workplace demands alienation of individuals from others

Question 6

Bourgeoisie

Answer 6

Capitalist class.

owners of the means of production who dominate the wage-workers

Question 7

Capital

Answer 7

Money and other resources invested in the production of commodities whose sale accumulates profit for the capitalist.

Question 8

Capitalism

Answer 8

A way of organizing commodity production structured on inequality by exploited labor
Produces profit for the owner of the means of production (factories, land etc)

Question 9

Class Consciousness

Answer 9

The group consciousness necessary for wage workers to recognize that their individual exploitation is part and parcel of capitalism, which requires the exploitation of the labor power of all wage workers (as a class) by the capitalist class in the production of profit.

Question 10

Class relations

Answer 10

Unequal relations of capitalists and wage workers to capital.
Capitalists are dominate over workers who must sell their labor to live

Question 11

Commodification of labor

Answer 11

the process by which workers labor is exchanged and traded on the market for a price (wages)

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

Capitalism is overthrown by proletarian revolution

The final phase in the evolution of history. where the division of labor and profit do not exist.

Question 13

Dialectical material

Answer 13

idea that historical change (material/economic change) is the result of conscious human acidity emerging from and acting on the socially experienced inequalities in human made economic relations

Question 14

Division of labor

Answer 14

the separation of occupational sectors and workers into specialized spheres of activity which makes alienated labor

Question 15

Economic base

Answer 15

the economic structure in capitalist society.