Jan 23, 2003 01:04
...and it isn't even written to appeal to one's emotions....
These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce....
(T)he work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine..
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom - Free Trade.
.....ouch...damn, that really is a stark way of looking at industry and capitalism......i would venture to say that Karl Marx was a genius in observation and theory, even though i do not agree with a communist system.....can't wait to see what i will learn in Part II of the Manifesto.....