马克思劳动时间界限理论对现代劳动伦理的启示

Enlightenment from Marxist Theory of Labor Time Limit to Modern Labor Ethics

马克思认为劳动时间不仅应该有身体界限,而且应该有道德界限,资本主义社会资本家为了占有工人的剩余劳动时间,使用各种手段延长劳动时间,既突破了劳动时间的道德界限,也突破了劳动时间的身体界限。我国社会主义市场经济建设中,也存在劳动时间过长的问题,但这与资本主义社会劳动时间过长存在着本质的区别。对我国劳动时间状态进行伦理反思,既要认识其产生的历史必然性,也要认识其危害,在此,马克思的劳动时间界限理论对于我国目前劳动制度建设具有重要的指导意义。

Marx believed that labor time should not only have physical limit but also the moral limit. In capitalist society, in order to exploit more surplus labor of workers, various means are adopted by the capitalists to prolong labor time, which breaks moral limit and physical limit. It exists the problem of over labor time in Chinas construction of socialist market economy as well, however, which is essential difference from that of the Capitalist society. Ethic reflection over labor time in China is to realize the historical necessity of its existence and its harmfulness as well. Marxist theory of labor time limit offers great enlightening significance for current construction of labor system of China.