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Karl Marx

Marien Burgos

Marx characterizes the relationship of labor activity to the commodity that is produced. He uses the example of the weaver to explain how capitalism is dependent on wage and labor for the working class. Also how businesses are motivated by the needs and wants of the bargainer and the owners of businesses and the production of labor belong to the capitalists. Marx mentions that sense the capitalist buys the supplies and the labor from the worker,the worker will receive his wages for the work he produced, and whether the capitalist sales his merchandise the worker would still get paid for his labor. Because the capitalist buys the yarn and loom the wages are not consider part of the shares of the worker in the exchanged in market. He considers the capitalist the higher class because this class uses their financial gain, the workers labor and extra product to their advantage.
The school were I work at is the perfect example, I started working their 2008. The school opened with only two classrooms because the owner didn’t have enough money for a bigger space but in that area there were no schools before we opened. The supplies and demand started growing. Now the owner of the school opened another school but the salaries of the teachers haven’t grown as much as the business has. As Marx mentions in (p.2) it is possible that the seller sells his merchandised for a very good profit but that doesn’t concern the worker. This is how the capitalist continues to be at the top of the pyramid.
In “The making of the U.S. working class” Braverman mentions in (P.32) that in this society the inverted pyramid is taking place because the productive labor is getting narrower and the workers are driven to produce a greater product. Because of the Capitalist system industries who don’t produce anything themselves are thriving. All this is in connection with what Marx explains,that the working class is always at the bottom of the pyramid and this class is always exploited but is the only way to survive.
As explained above the worker exchanges his commodity labor power in exchange of money. And long before the merchandised is fully produced the worker has received his wages. The capitalist owns the product and the labor. Also Marx considers the capitalist the higher class because they use the gains and the workers labor in their favor. In the end this is the reason why the rich continue to get richer and the working class continues to be working class.