In the Karl Marx reading one idea particularly stood out to me. The self rejected idea of using use value as a common element between commodities. After fiddling with that idea, he moves on to say that labor time is what’s necessary to produce commodities. What I understood from this may be very off topic, but I still want to go through and put it out there.
When reading about this, I thought of all of the men and women, and even children who spent hours upon hours producing over and over again. And that production was always a good thing, it sometimes resulted in over-production. It left all those people wondering “Did I waste hours, days, and months of my life just to end up in over production and receive low wages?” Marx may have written a great book about society from a major economic point of view, but all that comes to my mind is the peoples’ suffering.
I wish he went more in depth about how all this capitalism and industrialization affected all of those families from a social perspective. Maybe he does, but I truthfully don’t see it between all of that economic talk. Now, I’m not saying that what he’s written isn’t worthy. It is, many people follow by his theory and learn from his writings.
I’d really like to discuss the urban living families of this time.
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