According to marks, human beings like we have a kind of essential nature as creative and productive animals. We transform the world around us with these creative, productive powers. But the way capitalism works with its increasingly specialized forms of labor is that it leads to an alienated work for many people. The workers don't themselves or their identities reflected in the products or the activity of labor, right? Labor, for them is not a means of self expression in any way. And so they have this division of their life where they can only develop themselves as human beings in their leisure time or free time.
In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.
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