Marx's Concept of Man. Erich Fromm 1961

One important new idea that emerged from Marx for our purposes is as follows: we saw work as an activity that was supposed to endow us with happiness and a sense of humanity. This was a strange new concept, and although it sprang up as a reaction against capitalism, there is no doubt that it is now part of the capitalist creed. How many of us talk

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Cette dichotomie entre l’objectif et le subjectif a largement été remise en cause, et la relation entre subjectivité et structures sociales peut être appréhendée d’une manière plus complexe. Parmi les premiers à avoir thématisé cette question, Karl Marx, défenseur d’une vision matérialiste du monde social, ancrée dans les rapports de production et

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Marx hérite de la conception hégélienne du travail comme activité libre de création, il dénonce les contraintes spécifiques au régime capitaliste de production, les cadences infernales et l’abrutissement par la division des tâches par exemple. Marx questionne les contraintes capitalistes du travail ouvrier qui semblent une nécessité imposée par l’o

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The capitalist is always free to use labor, and the worker is always forced to sell it. The value of labor is completely destroyed if it is not sold every instant. Labor can neither be accumulated nor even be saved, unlike true commodities. Labor is life, and if life is not each day exchanged for food, it suffers and soon perishes. To claim that hu

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Work under capitalism alienated individuals from themselves since work is no longer a joy, but simply a means to earn wages to survive