Labor power

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Labor power describes the idea of a worker selling their time to perform a task. In early societies, humans hunted and gathered, bartering for goods. But a capitalist political economy forces workers to sell their time, not their products, separating workers from the products they manifacture. This idea is especially exemplified in the creation of the assembly line, in which workers are never connected to the final product as a whole, making them only a small part of a big system in which they are easily replaced. Marx specifically discusses this concept in his essay,`Capital,` explaining the ruling class creates a political economy in order to commodify the labor produced by the worker and uses this commodification to continually oppress the working class.

It is also important to note the relationship between history and the unchanging themes, such as capitalist oppression through commodification, that continually occur, an idea partially formed by the Hegelian concept of dialectic, a notion Marx describes in his essay, `The Formation of the German Ideology.`