Marxist Theory

This topic I find to be highly important. Deception, manipulation, secrecy, power, greed and selfishness all play in to the superstructures leading into religion, politics and cultures as a gateway for some key figures, such as the owner of a large company, to manipulate the tokens on the game board of their system.
As we discussed in class, something as seemingly simple as a drink we buy at Starbucks is really not that simple at all due to the labor that different categories of work forces put into it. There is the beans, which at first had to have a place to grow, and harvest, and package, and ship, and commute, and grind, and steep, and pour into your cup. This is just the bean trail. There is a “vast totality of labor” within the process. The problems we hear about are working conditions and payment to the hard labor workers out in Africa, for example. Or the bottom of the barrel office workers to a major corporation, under payed and taken advantage of, so that they receive just enough to live on, all because of numbers. All because the owner couldn’t bear to lose one cent over a less thought about process that they could have extracted more labor from, which is all the worker is to this owner; labor. It’s what he buys from them. He is a capitalist, or rather, the mother was the first capitalist; the first proletariat.