ABSTRACT
Precisely because political economy does not grasp the connections within the movement, it was possible to counterpose, for instance, the doctrine of competition to the doctrine of monopoly, the doctrine of craft-liberty to the doctrine of the corporation, the doctrine of the division of landed property to the doctrine of the big estate—for competition, craft-liberty and the division of landed property were explained and comprehended only as fortuitous, premediated and violent consequences of monopoly, the corporation, and feudal property, not as their necessary, inevitable and natural consequences. Political economy conceals the estrangement inherent in the nature of labour by not considering the direct relationship between the worker (labour) and production. The authors have considered the act of estranging practical human activity, labour, in two of its aspects. The relation of the worker to the product of labour as an alien object exercising power over him. The relation of labour to the act of production within the labour process.
