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Capitalism leads to exploitation and oppression from "summary" of The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

Capitalism, as a system based on private ownership of the means of production, inevitably leads to the exploitation and oppression of the working class by the capitalist class. The bourgeoisie, or the capitalist class, seeks to accumulate wealth and power at the expense of the proletariat, or the working class. This exploitation is inherent in the capitalist mode of production, where the bourgeoisie extracts surplus value from the labor of the proletariat, enriching themselves while keeping the working class in a state of poverty and dependence. The capitalist system is characterized by the commodification of labor, where workers are treated as mere commodities to be bought and sold in the labor market. This dehumanization of labor reduces workers to mere cogs in the capitalist machine, devoid of autonomy and agency. The capitalist class exploits this power dynamic to extract as much labor as possible from the working class, paying them wages that are far be...
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    The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

    Karl Marx

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