The Interests of Capital and Wage-Labour by Karl Marx

Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular consumption, of Marx's central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes "labour" from "labour-power", and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies and the disenfranchisement of the middle and working classes. The Theory of Alienation, which describes a dehumanising effect of capitalist production, in which an immediate social signifcance of labour to the worker is absent, is also touched upon. These theories were later elaborated in Volume 1 of Capital, published in 1867.

This edition of Wage-Labour and Capital, published in 1891, was edited and translated by Friedrich Engels, and remains one of the most widely read of Marx's works.

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[Armando1735]

Marx vive em suas idéias revolucionárias.

[vkvladman]

@primetimebeatz his communism idea was not great sure... but his criticism of capitalism is spot on so post that on a communism video :P

[eoghan93]

@primetimebeatz it's karl :P its even in the title.

[primetimebeatz]

@mightybaboonking lol your right but that doesnt make me a muppet you chia pet

[mightybaboonking]

@primetimebeatz at least spell his name right you muppet

[primetimebeatz]

Burn In Hell Carl Marx!!!!!!

[cris750]

The reality because of current technology: The State - The Corporation - The citizen(workers). When all 3 spheres are responsible and just no need of Hegel's observation of social conflict.

[TheNationalistParty]

that's the conflict, the antagonism: the labourer fights for increased wages, the capitalist wants those wages reduced to increase profit.

If it were possible, the capitalist would have workers working for no wages at all, slavery? Imagine the profit margins then