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?