>>1258592Man, I'm not being arrogant or anything, but Marx is extremely complex and his concepts are not something I can explain in an anonymous board in a few lines
You have the opportunity of reading Das Kapital in its original language, make good use of that
I see you're genuinely interested, and you'll probably like it if you read it
But it's not and easy reading, and I recommend you first read marxist authors instead of going straight to Marx
Anyway, there are a few concepts which are not simple, but let's go
There is this difference I explained about personal property and private property
Then there is the alienation of the work (I don't know if this is the right translation to English, I didn't read it in english, but let's go), which is basically about dissociating the personal aspect of your work from what you produce
That means we do not perceive traits of the work that's been put into the product, which produces the commodity fetishism, which is like perceiving the object in and of itself, as if it was given without having work force put into its production
So if you die in the manufacturing process, you'll be replaced because you're just another gear in the machinery, and the products you make have value from your work effort that's dissociated from you
The product has no traits specific to you
(Fucking hell this is hard to explain, and it's probably confusing for those reading)
So if you use your bike to deliver newspapers, you're not the owner of the means of production, you're just the average proletarian
Even if you own a small bookstore that sells newspapers you're not the bourgeoise
Because it's absolutely replaceable and does not add value to that commodity or product
Eventhough you earn money from that, it's way different from the owner of the newspaper factory
I don't think I made it clear, and it's way too hard, but look after concepts such as commodity fetishism, value (from a marxist perspective), theory of alienation
>cont. 
