Karl Marx's 'The Grundrisse'

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In the reading by Karl Marx “The Grundrisse”, he elaborates on topics like capitalism, machinery, and automation. Also, Karl Marx discusses how machinery is taking over laboring. He states that the production process has ceased to be a laboring process in the sense of a process dominated by labour instead of machine. In addition, Karl Marx makes a comparison between the machine and the worker. He says that the machine consumes coal, oil, etc. while the worker consumes food, to keep up its perpetual motion. Also, the machine can act as a replacement for a laborer and it can substitute for a mass amount of workers. Instead of the worker using the free time they receive from the machine they still do not use it towards their education. Additionally,

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