Relations of Production By "relations of production" (German: Produktionsverhältnisse), Marx and Engels meant the sum total of social relationships that peopl…
Commodity Fetishism In the marketplace, producers and consumers perceive each other by means of the money and goods that they exchange (commodity fetishism). Commodity …
The Base and Superstructure The Base and Superstructure The base comprises the forces and relations of production (e.g. employer-employee work conditions, the …
Fascism under Capitalism Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page…
Wage Slavery Defined Wage Slavery A human owning or hiring another human as property is a great infringement on human rights. Slavery may change it…
Theory of Alienation by Karl Marx Theory of Alienation In his "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" first released in 1932 by researchers fro…
Studying Adam Smith Noam Chomsky: I didn't do any research at all on Smith. I just read him. There's no research. Just read it. He's pre-capitalist, a figure…