"Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by the increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of machinery, etc."
-Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Chp. 1
Mechanization goes up, wages go down. The bourgeois reorganization of production creates tremendous wealth for the bourgeois, but poverty, oppression and alienation for the working class. These contradictions in material conditions lead to the inevitable conflict between classes, which then leads to revolution, and so on and so forth until the Communist New Jerusalem.
That about right? Or am I misreading the testaments?
-Jester
-Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Chp. 1
Mechanization goes up, wages go down. The bourgeois reorganization of production creates tremendous wealth for the bourgeois, but poverty, oppression and alienation for the working class. These contradictions in material conditions lead to the inevitable conflict between classes, which then leads to revolution, and so on and so forth until the Communist New Jerusalem.
That about right? Or am I misreading the testaments?
-Jester