Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm

Author:Erich Fromm [Fromm, Erich]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781480402096
Published: 2013-02-19T21:45:00+00:00

In an advanced state of society: “Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes in some measure a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society.” (p. 20) (See Destutt de Tracy:98 “Society is a series of reciprocal exchanges; commerce is the whole essence of society.”) The accumulation of capital increases with the division of labor and vice versa.—Thus far Adam Smith.

“If every family produced all that it consumed society could keep going although no exchanges of any kind took place. In our advanced state of society exchange, though not fundamental, is indispensable.”99 “The division of labor is a skillful deployment of man’s powers; it increases society’s production—its power and its pleasures—but it diminishes the ability of every person taken individually. Production cannot take place without exchange.” (Ibid., p. 76.)—Thus J. B. Say.

“The inherent powers of man are his intelligence and his physical capacity for work. Those which arise from the condition of society consist of the capacity to divide labor and to distribute the tasks among different people and the power to exchange the services and products which constitute the means of subsistence. The motive which impels a man to give his services to another is self-interest; he demands a return for the services rendered. The right of exclusive private property is indispensable to the establishment of exchange among men… Exchange and division of labor mutually condition each other.”100

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