Hey guys, so does anyone else feel like the division of labour can be described as a new religion? As Durkheim states, the collective consciousness and a moral/penal system based on religious principles and doctrines has shifted into man serving 'capital.' Durkheim states that our society went from one based in mechanical solidarity to one based in the system of labour. "The more we evolve, the more societies develop a profound feeling of themselves and their unity" (122). Do we not 'serve' the bourgeois, the higher class, in hopes of 'ascending' to a higher state? Do we not ascribe to a set of given values, laws, and practices because a higher power states that it is, essentially, 'right?' Even if Durkheim states that by emphasizing labour instead of Christianity in society, we are moving away from religion, aren't we just replacing Christianity with the same model of religiosity?
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