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According to Marx, attempting to assert one's freedom by seeking to
“do what we want” will lead to a significant reduction in freedom.
This is precisely because of the “dialectical conversion of quantity
into quality.” This is the struggle to escape from the constraints,
which dictate that exchange rates are not driven by labor processes,
but instead are largely focused on use values. Thus, in order to
maximize their productive and reward capacities, men should focus on
those areas of industry which have the highest marginal rate of
return and seek to innovate to gain advantages over competitors. By
engaging in this rational process, humans further integrate themselves
into the social division of labor. When people choose instead to
separate or extricate themselves from the accepted social division of
labor and the market system, they remain subject to the laws of the
market. But by choosing to remain outside of the system, they refuse
to commoditize the products of their labor and relate their labor to
the general and abstract. Thus, the social movement, in combination
with their own abandonment of the accepted rules and structures,
restricts and constrains their ability to act or have any effect or
place within society or the market, eventually isolating them and
greatly limiting personal and market freedom. |
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