All workers are equal, but some are more equal than others

Marx describes the work force in Communism. A worker is only as good as their production rate and the value of the item they are producing. “A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social of men’s labor appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labor; because the relation of the producer’s to the sum total of their own labor is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labor. This is the reason that the products of labor become commodities, social things whose qualities are at the same time perceptible and imperceptible by the senses.” (664) The creation of a commodity is only possible if there is someone to labor over producing the commodity, and the labor itself therefore becomes commodified.

“The character that his own labor possesses of being socially useful takes the form of the condition, that the product must not be only useful, but useful for others, and the social character that this particular labor has of being equal of all other particular kinds of labor, takes the form that all physically different articles that are the products of labor, have one common quality, viz., that of having value” (666). If a product is not useful to others the labor is useless and a waste of time.