![]() And the labourer who for 12 hours long, weaves, spins, bores, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stone, carries hods, and so on – is this 12 hours' weaving, spinning, boring, turning, building, shovelling, stone-breaking, regarded by him as a manifestation of life, as life? Quite the contrary. What he produces for himself is wages and the silk, the gold, and the palace are resolved for him into a certain quantity of necessaries of life, perhaps into a cotton jacket, into copper coins, and into a basement dwelling. What he produces for himself is not the silk that he weaves, not the gold that he draws up the mining shaft, not the palace that he builds. The product of his activity, therefore, is not the aim of his activity. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another. He does not count the labour itself as a part of his life it is rather a sacrifice of his life. ![]() His life-activity, therefore, is but a means of securing his own existence. ![]() And this life activity he sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.īut the putting of labour-power into action – i.e., the work – is the active expression of the labourer's own life. “Consequently, labour-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. ![]()
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