question 2 Flashcards
exploitation
Workers create value, but capitalists take the profit by paying them less than their labor is worth.
Aliention
– Workers feel disconnected from:
What they produce (they don’t own it).
The work itself (it’s repetitive and controlled by others).
Their own humanity (labor is just a commodity).
Other workers (competition replaces community).
Community fetishism
– People value products more than the labor and relationships behind them.
crisis and insatbility
– Capitalism has cycles of economic crashes due to overproduction and inequality.
wealth concentration
The rich get richer, and inequality grows.
work is just for survival
not creativity or fulfillment.
workers lack control
over what they do.
jobs can feel robotic
treating people like machines.
marx believed what
Marx believed the only real fix was replacing capitalism with socialism/communism, where workers control production together.