Marx Demonstrated Three Things...

This week in class, we have talked about what Karl Marx has thought about people and things in labor. He demonstrated three things in labor(which he explained as what separates us humans from the animals). The first one he demonstrated was the existence of classes is bound up with particular historical epochs. The second one he demonstrated was the class struggle necessary leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. The last one he demonstrated was the dictatorship of the proletariat is only a transitional state to a class-less society. What I believe he meant by these is that the different things we do is something that the animals don't do. They let us know that we're workers and different from the rich because we do labor which is also known as a free, conscious activity. He used factors of production and relations of production to differentiate is from the animals in labor. He said that factors of production is raw materials, tools, skills, and human labor that it takes to produce things that are needed to survive. I believe that animals relate to us in this way except human labor. They use skills and tools to survive by fighting off other animals, knowing where to stay in the safe zone, and using techniques to find food. He said that relations of production is the specific way we relate to one another that are use to mold the production of our age. What I believe he meant by this is that we can only do something that we know by the level of learning. That is what I learned this week.