The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence

Negation: The average price of wage-labour is not the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence 0 0 0

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If it is true that...

Communism aims at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour 1 0 2

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Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour 1 0 2

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Capital is a collective product and a social power 1 0 2

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The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

In bourgeois society, living labour is a means to increase accumulated labour while in communist society, accumulated labour is a means to promote existence of the labourer 1 0 2

Argument #d3bace9e 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

In bourgeois society, living labour is a means to increase accumulated labour while in communist society, accumulated labour is a means to promote existence of the labourer 1 0 2

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The bourgeoisie has ended all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations and replaced them with naked self-interest and cash payment 1 0 2 The bourgeoisie has converted the physician, lawyer, priest, poet, and man of science into its paid wage laborers 1 0 2 As the bourgeoisie develops, so does the proletariat, a class of laborers who live only as long as they find work and who find work only as long as their labor increases capital 1 0 2 Machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour and reduces wages to the same low level 1 0 2 The growing competition among the bourgeois and the resulting commercial crises make the wages of the workers fluctuating 1 0 2 Workers form combinations against the bourgeois to keep up the rate of wages 1 0 2 The essential condition for existence and sway of bourgeois class is formation and augmentation of capital which rests on wage-labour and competition among labourers 1 0 2 Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour 1 0 2 In bourgeois society, living labour is a means to increase accumulated labour while in communist society, accumulated labour is a means to promote existence of the labourer 1 0 2 Labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent into a social power capable of being monopolised when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property 1 0 2