Wage labour and capital - Wages, price and profit

Karl Marx

Publié par Science marxiste, le 01 septembre 2018

111 pages

Résumé

Wage Labour and Capital finds all its richness and modernity in its combination between the aim for which it was written and its key idea. Accaording to the latter, it is the nature of capitalism to conceal relations among people under the appearance of relations among " things ". The mysterious characteristics of such " things " as capital or wages can be clarified by tracing them back to their underlying relations, relations among people. What explains the topicality of this text is precisely the fact that the fundamental relation, even today, has not changed. Society is founded on the relation established between the minority of people who monopolise the means of production – capitalists – and the vast majority of those who are without them and who are therefore obliged to sell their capacity to work – wage earners.