Questions about surplus value and alienation from reading Das Kapital
When workers mass produce high precision rivets for fighter aircraft fuselage bonding, and the only reason they do so is {to be able to buy meat, bread, potatoes, carrots, coffee, and vodka}, is there alienation?
When workers produce tuna cans at the factory, which is owned by the state, {as above}, who benefits from their labor and the surplus value produced?
How does the working class decide whether they need rivets, cans, bread, or vodka, and what if they did not want to produce those but instead wanted carrots, tuna, sprouts, and pita?
Those who can decide and rate worker performance, they can tell workers what to do, or sent them home because their work does not meet standards, are they creating value or are they consuming it? When someone likes to work in producing rivets but is sent to produce tuna cans instead, the decision maker, is he part of the working class or of another class?
When an institution is adopted from a capitalist economy to function within a socialist economy, nearly identical with the exception of ownership being by a worker state and not by an individual seeking to make profit, are the social relations developed by this institution any different in a socialist society? It can be a university, a hospital, a museum, or a sports facility. They all reinforce and reproduce the hierarchic structure they have in capitalism, and divide people as unequal. How can society change if all social relations between capitalism and socialism stay the same?
Then how can this mild reform of capitalism be branded #revolution ?
