Tiền lương được xác định thông qua các cuộc đấu tranh đối kháng giữa tư bản và công nhân. Chiến thắng nhất thiết phải đi đến tư bản chủ nghĩa. Tư bản chủ nghĩa có thể sống lâu hơn mà không cần nhân viên có thể công nhân không có tư bản chủ nghĩa. | Karl Marx Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Wages of Labour Wages are determined through the antagonistic struggle between capitalist and worker. Victory goes necessarily to the capitalist. The capitalist can live longer without the worker than can the worker without the capitalist. Combination among the capitalists is customary and effective workers combination is prohibited and painful in its consequences for them. Besides the landowner and the capitalist can make use of industrial advantages to augment their revenues the worker has neither rent nor interest on capital to supplement his industrial income. Hence the intensity of the competition among the workers. Thus only for the workers is the separation of capital landed property and labour an inevitable essential and detrimental separation. Capital and landed property need not remain fixed in this abstraction as must the labour of the workers. The separation of capital rent and labour is thus fatal for the worker. The lowest and the only necessary wage rate is that providing for the subsistence of the worker for the duration of his work and as much more as is necessary for him to support a family and for the race of labourers not to die out. The ordinary wage according to Smith is the lowest compatible with common humanity 6 that is with cattle-like existence. The demand for men necessarily governs the production of men as of every other commodity. Should supply greatly exceed demand a section of the workers sinks into beggary or starvation. The worker s existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer. And the demand on which the life of the worker depends depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists. Should supply exceed demand then one of the constituent parts of the price profit rent or wages is paid below its rate a part of these factors is therefore .
