Understanding Social Reality through Marxism

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Main Tenets of Marxisme Basically, life of individuals in a society are based on economic principles. This means the political institution, education, religion, science and etc, depending on the availability of economic resources for survival, it also means that these institutions can not develop within ways that are contrary to the demands of the economic system. According to Marx, the key to understanding the social reality is not found in abstract ideas, but in the factories or in the coal mines, where workers carry out the duties that are beyond the limitations of humanity, to prevent themselves from dying of starvation, in which the unemployed people find dignity as a human being because there is no way aside from it. The capitalist is …show more content…

Capital can not be increased without exploiting the people who work hard. The capitalist system is a social structure emerging from the basic of the exploitative relationship. The capitalists are people who live on their capital gains, and they are the inheritors of the exploitation of the proletariat. B. Exploitation Exploitation is an important part of the capitalist economy, in capitalism shows that the exploitation is carried out by an economic system that is impersonal and objective. Capitalists pay workers less than the wage that they produce and reap the benefits for themselves. This brings to the central concept of Marx's surplus value, surplus value is defined as the difference of the value product when it is sold and the elements used to make these products (including the labor of the worker). Surplus value, as well as the capital, is a particular social relations and a form of domination, because labor is the real source of surplus value. the surplus value is the expression for the rate of exploitation of labor by capital or the exploitation of workers by …show more content…

People work based on goals capitalist to pay them. In capitalism, labor is no longer a goal in itself but as an expression of the ability, potential of humanity and effort to earn money. The individual who experienced alienation in capitalist society is basic focus of Mark analysis in the structure of capitalism that became the source of alienation. Marx used the concept of alienation to the influence of capitalist production on people and on society. The most important thing is the two-class system in which capitalists use and treat workers (and thereby, their working time) and their production (tools and raw materials) as final products and workers are forced to spend their time to work to the capitalist in order they can

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