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Marx, Capitalism and Organisations
1929…1987…1997…2008
Capitalist Exploitation
The amount of work workers need to do to survive
The amount of work workers are made to do by capitalists
X
X +S
S = Surplus Value ‘stolen’ from workers by the capitalist
The face of alienation
Why do the workers ‘accept’ this?
Hegemony?
Commodity Fetishism
Women Objectification = Commodity Fetishism?
Are products ideologically (or spiritually) ‘neutral’?
Next time we go ‘Wow!’ and ‘Awesome!’ over a product,
remember…
The “Opium of the People”
What happens when the exploitation gets worse and worse?
“Workers of the world unite!”
The Bolshevik RevolutionRussia, 1917
How do we ‘bring’ Marx into the organisation?