The Ethical Implication Of Marx’s View Of Labor

Labor is the core category of Marx’s theoretical system.In order to cope with the phenomenon of labor alienation brought about by the development of the capitalist market economy,Marx highlighted the basic position and important role of labor in the development of human history on the basis of summarizing and summarizing the understanding of labor by his predecessors.Based on the literature combing of Marx’s concept of labor,the formation of Marx’s concept of labor can be divided into three important stages: the proposal of alienated labor theory,the establishment of materialist historical view,and the emergence of labor theory of value.In view of the narrow understanding of labor under the actual capitalist production conditions,Marx creatively put forward the concept of "alienated labor" and clarified the manifestation of "alienated labor" and its fourfold regularity.Starting from the facts of the national economy,Marx revealed the relationship between alienated labor and private property,and proposed that the process of alienation is brewing the power of abandoning alienation,and communism is the active abandonment of private property.With the emergence of the materialist view of history,for the first time in human history,labor is regarded as the basic point of the materialist view of history,which on the one hand confirms the basic position of labor for human survival,and on the other hand,reflects the great role of labor in the development of human history.In addition,Marx combined the concept of labor more closely with the materialist view of history,which not only gave birth to a scientific and rigorous labor theory of value,but also derived another great discovery of Marx,the theory of surplus value,which provided theoretical support for arguing the historical trend of capitalism’s inevitable demise.Although Marx did not directly use the term "labor ethics" in his related works,in the process of re-examining the origin of Marx’s concept of labor,it can be found that Marx closely related labor with the essence and morality of human beings,and it contains rich ethical ideas in creating harmonious labor-management relations and the realization of human freedom and happiness.Through the profound analysis of capitalist production relations,Marx proposed that the acute problems of capitalist labor-management relations are mainly reflected in the irrational appropriation and distribution of surplus value by the bourgeoisie,and the unfairness of the distribution of rights and obligations of labor subjects is the main contradiction of capitalist labor-management relations.Therefore,it is particularly important to re-understand labor rights and obligations in the context of Marx.It can be said that Marx’s labor ultimately points to the free and comprehensive development of man and the realization of a happy life for mankind.Marx’s view of labor has been recognized by scholars and has also been criticized by relevant criticisms,such as Arendt and Habermas’ s criticism of labor and human freedom,and the instrumental characteristics of labor.However,a look at Marx’s interpretation of labor shows that some later scholars have ignored Marx’s emphasis on the productive nature of labor,and the idea of leading people to political freedom and behavioral interaction paradigms through elitism to achieve an ideal society is difficult to implement.At present,in the face of the challenge of artificial intelligence to the traditional concept of labor,revisiting Marx’s concept of labor and its ethical implications still has important practical value,for the development of China’s society,Marx’s concept of labor and its ethical implications will help promote the implementation of China’s concept of shared development and help build harmonious labor relations.