K. Marx about the Problem of Interconnection of Working Time and Spare Time in Society

Abstract

The life of an individual and the society on the whole develops in the course of time. In the second half of the XX-th century, in the sphere of material production, the conditions begin to form, which lead to improving the efficiency of working time, to its reduction and the increase in spare time. Establishing the interconnection between working and spare time, K. Marx points out peculiarities of the use of time by an individual and by the society. He pays attention to the significance of time saving, which becomes, in his opinion, the most important economic law on the basis of collective production.