Both Marx and Douglas agree that there is an original concept of property that is more inclusive and positive, but society functions based a hidden idea of property that exploits other humans. For Marx, the original concept of property is positive to society as a whole and is not discriminative but inclusive. He says that a person’s individuality is defined by their production which enables him to contribute to other people’s life around them, making him/her a species-being. However, this concept of property is corrupted when society attribute value to labor. Marx claims that the capitalist idea of property corrupts people’s idea of species-being because they no longer produce to help the community. Although corrupted, Marx says that it is
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To Marx the original concept of property was defined in terms of production and species-being. The author says that “it is just in his work upon objective world, therefore, that man really proves himself to be species-being. This production in his active species-life. Through this production, nature appears as his work and his reality. The object of labor is, therefore, the objectification of man’s species-life: for he duplicates himself not only, as in consciousness, intellectually, but also actively, in reality, and therefore he sees himself in a world that he has created” (Estranged Labour, 10). People’s individuality and existence are intrinsically linked to their production. Marx says that “it is just in his work upon objective world, therefore, that man really proves himself to be species-being” because is through their production that people can contribute to society. By species-being Marx means that a person understand him/herself as a human being who has the responsibility of producing to contribute to the community. Furthermore, by saying that “through this production, nature appears as his work and his reality” Marx argues that people are benevolent by nature; that they aim to contribute to people’s life with their production. Through their work or production, a person can therefore help others. The concept of property is viewed in terms of …show more content…
A person cannot enjoy one without the other. Douglass affirms that the Constitution is document of liberty and that ““there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument […] there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of hate full thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is glorious liberty document” (36). Hence, because “the Constitution is glorious liberty document,” it is hostile to the idea of slave-holding or holding humans as property since it inhibits people from having their liberty. Though Americans refer to “the pro-slavery character of the Constitution,” Douglass argues that “it [the Constitution] will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery” (38). The constitution is a document that claims that “all men are created equal” and therefore have the right to enjoy the same kind of liberty. Douglas challenges society to “take the constitution according to its plain reading” (38) that they will find that no “presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it” (38). The constitution has principles of equality and liberty, which
To Marx the original concept of property was defined in terms of production and species-being. The author says that “it is just in his work upon objective world, therefore, that man really proves himself to be species-being. This production in his active species-life. Through this production, nature appears as his work and his reality. The object of labor is, therefore, the objectification of man’s species-life: for he duplicates himself not only, as in consciousness, intellectually, but also actively, in reality, and therefore he sees himself in a world that he has created” (Estranged Labour, 10). People’s individuality and existence are intrinsically linked to their production. Marx says that “it is just in his work upon objective world, therefore, that man really proves himself to be species-being” because is through their production that people can contribute to society. By species-being Marx means that a person understand him/herself as a human being who has the responsibility of producing to contribute to the community. Furthermore, by saying that “through this production, nature appears as his work and his reality” Marx argues that people are benevolent by nature; that they aim to contribute to people’s life with their production. Through their work or production, a person can therefore help others. The concept of property is viewed in terms of …show more content…
A person cannot enjoy one without the other. Douglass affirms that the Constitution is document of liberty and that ““there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument […] there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of hate full thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is glorious liberty document” (36). Hence, because “the Constitution is glorious liberty document,” it is hostile to the idea of slave-holding or holding humans as property since it inhibits people from having their liberty. Though Americans refer to “the pro-slavery character of the Constitution,” Douglass argues that “it [the Constitution] will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery” (38). The constitution is a document that claims that “all men are created equal” and therefore have the right to enjoy the same kind of liberty. Douglas challenges society to “take the constitution according to its plain reading” (38) that they will find that no “presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it” (38). The constitution has principles of equality and liberty, which