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[60] Eastwood: capitalistic abstract labor. To most Capitalism represents power, privilege, maximum profit, and maximum
self interest. When Marx is referring to abstract labor, he is not talking
about labor as an application of human skills which transforms the use-value
of the product. Abstract labor also has to do with the human body creating
energy and transferring that energy into labor. Or in other words, abstract
labor is an expenditure of the human brain, muscles, and nerves to produce
or expend energy. In a capitalistic society everyone expels abstract labor.
Class, wealth, or culture would not differ the type of abstract labor, nor
would the type of work, or product produced. Power, privilege, maximum self
interest, etc. has no relevance with abstract labor. Since everyone in
society is performing abstract labor, you could relate how abstract labor is
more of a social aspect of capitalism. |
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