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A review by nb_leftist
Wage-Labour and Capital / Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
informative
fast-paced
4.0
Funnily enough, the only other Marx I’ve read is The Communist Manifesto. I definitely should have read this one first. Crazy good introduction to the issues w/ capitalism and the wage system w/o all the crazy ass vocabulary. Recommend it heavily as an intro text to anti-capitalism.
I will say, though, that capitalism’s functioning and the system of wages have both changed in some very interesting ways. The main one that I think about is the change from an industrial economy to a service economy where the product is more abstract, and the growing prevalence of elimination/exclusion of the human “worker” from production. Some other texts I’ve read have talked about this, mostly more contemporary ones like One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Markuse (one of my favorite books).
In spite of its (sometimes) outdatedness, I would still recommend it. It’s quick, accessible, and is free from most of the horrifically boring prose of the time period.
I will say, though, that capitalism’s functioning and the system of wages have both changed in some very interesting ways. The main one that I think about is the change from an industrial economy to a service economy where the product is more abstract, and the growing prevalence of elimination/exclusion of the human “worker” from production. Some other texts I’ve read have talked about this, mostly more contemporary ones like One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Markuse (one of my favorite books).
In spite of its (sometimes) outdatedness, I would still recommend it. It’s quick, accessible, and is free from most of the horrifically boring prose of the time period.