| This question <30|52> overall <49|51> McKinsey: <49|105>. |
| Question 68: What is the difference between labor and labor power? |
| [50] McKinsey: Labor and Labor Power, What is the Difference? Labor is the purposeful human activity. This activity is necessary in any social system to produce use-value. Labor-power is not an operative activity, rather it is human labor potential. It is the capacity to work, to perform labor; consequently, capitalist buy workers labor-power and thereafter extracts actual labor. Or a marxist would argue that labor is exploited from the worker. |
| Hans: Good characterization of the difference. With the purchase of labor power you are jumping ahead in the material, and the most important thing in Marx's theory seems to be a matter of course to you: it is peculiar for capitalism that labor power can be had as a commodity. Yours was already the third submission to the same Question (after [7] and [30]), but you still said something the others had not said. It would have helped your grade if you had shown awareness of the prior submissions. |
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