Why I love Midterms/Finals Week

I have a theory on why midterm/finals week rocks.

It has to do with Marxist theory of labor. Marxist labor theory prime motivation is to dispel the ideals of thought that Marx, in his young Hegelian days, found so lucrative. Instead, all forward progress is made through production, and nothing else.

In capitalistic society, instead of producing what we need for ourselves, and trading that product to others for things we need, and working as a community, we word on something for money, which we use to appropriate things. These are things, possessions, that we may or may not need, and since we are not working for them, but rather working for money, we see a process of alienation of the common worker from his natural social being of self-production and instead turns to a system of coerced labor and capital. Capital is essentially the antitheses of the natural communistic society that humans should be placed in, because it separates you from your productive labor.

Anyway, back to midterms and finals.

I'm really beginning to think that Marx would have loved watching students slave over books for long times. There is nothing more rewarding than producing something that you can trade, and to not have money interfere with what you are doing. Rather than writing a paper to get money, you are writing a paper to get a grade from the university, showing the quality of your work. How great is that? Instead of merely getting a separate type of capital, we get an exchange of goods or services that mimics communism in every way. Think about it! Your university may be the microcosm equivalent of societal communism!
And really, you cant get any better than that.

So, everyone, please, enjoy your midterms and finals! They are the only finals you are going to have, and once you get back into the real world that you never were in in the first place, you will be alienated! Sucks!