Production of goods
The production of goods is a central concept in Marxist theory . Their condition of existence is the division of labor production of goods by independent producers who exchange them on the market . Marx calls this relationship of producers, in which private labor is presented as a general social one, the social division of labor . Market exchange turns products into goods which, as carriers of use and exchange value, have a dual character. The relationships between people (who actually work for one another) appear as relationships between things that have become independent from their producers ( reification , commodity fetishism ).
Marx differentiates between simple and capitalist production of goods . Only when labor is separated from the means of production and becomes a commodity as wage labor does simple commodity production change over to capitalist production based on exploitation .
“In the beginning” “the product belongs to the producer”, who, “exchanging equivalent for equivalent, can only enrich himself through his own work”. “[S] if labor power is freely sold by the worker himself as a commodity”, [...] “commodity production forces itself upon society as a whole” - it becomes a capitalist form of production by “converting the property laws of commodity production into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation. "
literature
- Karl Marx : Capital . Critique of Political Economy . First volume. Chapter 1: The Goods .
- Konrad Lotter, Reinhard Meiners, Elmar Treptow : Marx-Engels-Term Lexicon. PapyRossa 2006, pp. 369-372.
- Samezo Kuruma : Marx Lexicon on Political Economy. Volume 2. Section commodity production and capitalist production , pp. 318–339.