Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: With linked Table of Contents
Karl Marx theorized,9 labor under industrialized capitalism alienated workers from the products of their
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
The dynamic of capitalism, then, is not oriented toward solving the problem of unemployment, but actively benefits from the existence of unemployment. Moreover, under capitalism we cannot transform the negative value of unemployment into the positive value of free time to lead our lives, since our measure of value is labor time. Keynes’s claim—that
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Under the pressure of an expanding mega-machine, power is concentrated in a few hands, and the majority becomes dependent on handouts. New levels of luxuriant overproduction grow faster than the output of commodities which this wanton production imposes.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
Hence, let me rehearse what I demonstrated in systematic detail in chapter 5: there is only one fundamental definition of capitalism. Capitalism is a historical form of life in which wage labor is the foundation of social wealth. We live in a global capitalist world because all of us depend for our survival on the social wealth generated by wage la
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