In the analysis of the capitalist economy that Marx performs in his famous work “Capital” It starts from the basic concept of “commodity«, whose exchange has in turn generated money as a particular commodity form. The fundamental mode of this is, however,the workforceembodied in capitalism by the working class.
The fact that the capitalist means of production are private property has generated alienation, because if man affirms himself in the production process and is objectification of himself what he produces, the very product of his work opposes him, however, frontally as something foreign and independent.The workerwell,performs work that belongs to another and that also does not revert to itselfsince he only receives what is necessary for the maintenance of said labor force, that wages are less than production; I know thus generate a few surpluses or capital gainsof which the capitalist class appropriates.
The process thus generated, with the increasing accumulation of wealth from surplus value in the hands of a minorityprovokes a progressive centralization and greater privatization of the means of production, according to which the The difference between the working class and the capitalist class is accentuated even more.
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