The Origins of Evil

Mark Johnson: Arguing that evil came into the world by an historical act of evil explains nothing at all about the origins of evil. He says labor produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and this at the same rate in which it produces commodities in general. The product of labor is labor which has been embodied in an object, which has become material," he writes. "Labor's ultimate realization then is its objectification into the form of a commodity which labor itself doesn't control"