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Introduction to Theory: Karl Marx

Money on the Left

CHAPTER

What Is the Essence of the Commodity of Men's Labor?

Workers are not able to fully real is insensuous, replete, heterogeneous ways. Instead they're producing for an abstract value that equates all these products and all these services. Marks in capital volume one is all about revealing that mystical essence of money. And even the bourgeoisie are caught up in this alienation, even if they have a better time of it.

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