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How Capitalism Commodifies Time

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The Liberation of the Worker

The free worker is somebody who is able to freely dispose of their own labor power. But i'm also free in a second sense, which is that i have no other commodity for sale. I am free of all objects that i need in order to realize labor power. And this freedom introduces both the positive and the negative element of cap ism in relation to the feudal system. It means that i need to depend on somebody else who owns the means of production in order to realizes my labor power.

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