Wednesday, January 14, 2009

optional homework

Have you ever wonder who came up with the idea of labors, alienation, and the surplus labor? These past few days during history class, Andy bought up a topic of how workers work for money, which is very relevant to the American Way of Life. Karl Marx was the man of everything. He was born in German and known as the philospher, political economist and the founded of communism. A well famous man that argued that capitalism will produce internal tenisons which leads to struggle. He also wrote an essay called Estranged Labor, restateing his thoughts of replacing capitalism with feudalism.

After Mr. Marx read about the Communist Manifesto, he disagree about the point of how capitalism should be ended through the Communist Party. That he didnt believe workers worked the same way by arguring that work is a social activity and a conditions or forms to be change over time. Marx's history focus on labor and just basic resources for product goods. In order for someone to produce work or labor, they work and get paid for the work. They are working just to survive.

This is related to the American Way of Life because people needs money to survive, so they work even though we have poor labors. Marx point is to make people to have competition with each other, so they can earn more. It force more people to be creative of earning more money.

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