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Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 3/4)

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The Difference Between a Tool and a Machine

The introduction of manufacturing was one of the first moments of capitalist production. Here we are going to see its development into a kind of full ledged exploittive form, he says. Despite the claim that it will free up labor for people, it instead, just increases the amount of surplus labor that can be extracted from humans. We're not talking about a total shift of the logic of tools tike hammer or screwdriveor whatever. Instead, we are seeing a multiplication of tools, an expansion of tools.

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