For Marx capitalism deceptively represents "science as the property of capital". Machinery -bought with the unpaid labor of workers- is "presented as someone else's science, external to the worker". With the development of technology, "the worker is presented as superfluous". 1/4
βIt is therefore a highly absurd bourgeois assertion that the worker have common interests with the capitalist because the latter makes his labour shorter and easierβ. Marx explained that "capital unintentionally reduces human labour to a minimum" only to increase its profit. 2/4
In the "Grundrisse" (1857-58), Marx wrote that work "is transferred from the worker to capital in the form of the machine" and, consequently, labor is devalued: "what was the living worker's activity becomes the activity of the machine". 3/4
In contrast, in socialism "the general reduction of the necessary labour of society to a minimum" -thanks to the resources created by machines- allows "the free development of individualities, the growth of their artistic, scientific, etc, qualities". There is an alternative. 4/4
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