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- - - - labour allows us to distinguish ourselves from animals, to free ourselves from the constraints of nature, and, most importantly, to achieve our humanity
      - animals: function solely on their instincts, which are also linked to their vital needs.
      - humans: to work is to be able to differentiate our needs and our desires, to discipline ourselves by exercising our will, and to accomplish a conscious project.
      - “what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality”
      - animals act automatically and repeat their tasks perpetually, whereas humans know how to conceive and innovate.
      - Men know how to use nature and its resources to meet his needs and adapt it to their desire.
      - work is both a transformation of nature and a self-transformation.
      - such high regards is that it allows humans to liberate themselves from Nature’s domination (link) — an “exercise in liberty” as Marx would say — and from their animality to create a human world. Thus, work allows us to perfect our conscience and our intelligence.
      - humans no longer work to exercise their liberty but work by constraint. Capitalism makes it so that workers only use their force without utilising their spirit and creativity — essentially being reduced to their animal form again.
      - the process of Enclosure (18th-19th century) in the United-Kingdom, fields started to be privatised by landlords. In industrial capitalism, the forces of production ranged from factories or fields to concepts like the assembly line. All these things are owned by a group of people that Marx called the bourgeoisie.
  - - - uncompromising piece of writing that demands nothing less than a socialist revolution; any other attempts to negotiate or compromise with the capitalists will never lead to an improvement of working conditions, nor will it lead to a profound system change.
      - belief that capitalism will pave the way to socialism and eventually the passage to communism — just like how every mode of production of the past comes with an internal contradiction.
      - The proletariat ought to wait rather than concede to short term improvements because the moment capitalism reaches its end will also be when radical social tensions reach its peak.
      - power is determined by an individual’s position within the social structure, revolutionary socialism is the idea that socialism can only be achieved by overthrowing the existing societal and political structure.
      - capitalism will be plagued with crises, notably because the system will suffer from an “epidemic of overproduction.”
      - naturally involve an increasing number of actors over time, thus creating a perpetual cycle of growing crises until it reaches its breaking point.
      - bourgeoisie : will eventually be unable to “control the powers of the netherworld whom [they] called up by [their] spells.”
    - - And according to Hegel the movement is history is one that is based on the dialectic of ideas (ideas shape history)
- - - - Class on an objective level, low level of consciousness when a person understands that he belongs to a particular class
    - - high level of class consciousness when a person understands that the interest of his class and that of there class is antagonistic. Will then strive to defend the intersperses of his class