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Alienation

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The Idea of Surplus Value

In the manuscripts of 1844, there's – in the – the meaning of human requirements where there is private property under socialism. When the market is very small, no person can have any encouragement to dedicate himself entirely to one in – one employment. For every hour that the worker works, there's this surplus value given to the capitalist and then – which is not reimbursed for capitalism to function. And so that idea, I think, that is alienation, right?

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