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[...] labour faces a dialectic of poverty and wealth: it "is absolute poverty as object" (labour does not own what it produces) and at the same time "the general possibility of wealth" (only labour, not capital, produces and is a necessary condition of wealth) [...]

[...] Labour is a necessarily alienated form of work, in which humans do not control and own the means and results of production. It is a historic form of the organization of work in class societies. Work in contrast is a much more general concept common to all societies. It is a process, in which …

This relation was however considered necessary for progress; its potential sublation was not seen as a historical potential enabled by the development of the productive forces

Aristotle made a distinction between poíesis (the creation of works from nature) and praxis (self-determined action)