Self-exploitation as a concept in the capitalism of the 21st century

Abstract

The publication exposes an approach to a little explored concept that has been called self-exploitation; basically it is the discussion of arguments from two visions that at times seem to converge and at other times diverge, namely: the more philosophical vision of Byung Chul H .; and a more economic vision, from Marxism, of the writer. The theoretical support used, to argue the vision of the author who writes, is the school of Marxist political economy; with a research approach from dialectical materialism, where some aspects of the history that the subject in analysis are taken up are taken up again. The objective is to present a proposal for the explanation of some elements of contemporary socio-economic reality, that which is gestated in the 21st century. It is the self-exploitation, from the vision of the writer, the expression of the evolution of the means of production, or as it is usually named: the 3rd industrial revolution and the 4th industrial revolution; as well as, for a state of collective ecstasy, for the idea of freedom, of everything, including work, something exposed for Byung Chul H.