Aristotle’s Influence on Marx’s Theory of Value and Automation

Aristotle’s Influence on Marx’s Theory of Value and Automation

Marx and Aristotle, though centuries apart, both recognized that value is rooted in social relations rather than in objects themselves. Credit: GreekReporter Archive When the philosopher Karl Marx set out to unravel the mysteries of value, exchange, and labor in capitalist society, he found a surprising intellectual ally in Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher who lived two millennia earlier. Despite their different historical contexts, both…