If
we look at today’s society its broadly divided into two basic
communities the owner community and the worker community (labor
community, including managers also).owner community in Marxian
perspective is ruling class which owns forces of production and tends to
exploit (make optimum utilization – that’s what they calls) worker
community and therefore conflict of interest between these two
communities are observed in market. These owner communities control
various institutions like economy, politics, religion etc. in society.
In
feudal era two main classes distinguished by their relationship with
forces of production similarly in today’s era we can see owner community
(capitalists) has control over all means of production while working
community has control over only labor.
The
laborer in economy must sell his labor power to survive as he does not
have means to produces goods independently. Owner community or
capitalists depends on labor power and working community depends on
capitalists for capital power such mutual dependency of these two
communities are not equal. Owner community gains at the expense of
working community (Your Company will pay you Rs. 40K only if you can
earn Rs.80k for your company).
Coming
to capital, it finances the production process of goods for private
gains. Everything (labor, raw material, material etc.) used to produce
these goods and services are given monitory value and capitalists
invests his capital in production process and accumulate more capital by
selling those goods greater than their actual cost of production
(What’s new in that to learn??) and monetary reward given by this owner
community is lesser than the value of goods produced (profit).
Interestingly!!! Capital is privately owned by minority group of society
and gained by exploiting mass of population. In reality capital produce
nothing, only labor produce wealth for society.
Since
power of capitalists is rooted in control over forces of production and
economy being major institution of society is dominated by capitalists
who further controls politics, education and religion also influencing
value and belief system of society. ‘Free market’, ‘free democratic
societies’, ‘free world’ etc. are just illusions which encourage wage
slavery. As Marx says- ruling class creates false class consciousness.
For
now I can just say that both the communities tends to accept the status
quo as normal and natural and are largely unaware or unconscious with
real nature of exploitation and oppression and this is the main reason
why conflict of interest between these two communities is disguised and
degree of social stability is maintained.
Trust me- Basic contradictions and conflicts of society are same and unchanged.
