Marxist theory of the contradiction between private labor and social labor in a commodity economy society based upon private property. Marx used materialist dialectics to reveal the general laws of the simple commodity economy in Capital and in his other works. He put forth the theory that the contradiction between private labor and social labor is the fundamental contradiction of the commodity economy…
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