Abstract
The article considers whether the ideal-typical models of the worker and the bourgeois are ontologically equal or not. On the interpretation of several excerpts from Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts and German Ideology, the author of the article demonstrates a thesis, the core of which is to outline the differences between the belonging of these characters in the categories of man, animal and inanimate object.
The conclusion of this writing is the determination of the differences in the existence of the worker and the rentier in the matter of ontological affiliation to these categories and the implication that both characters are the zombies, members of both the world of the living and the world of the dead; in the abstract meaning of substantial freedom, however, both the worker and the rentier are ultimately equal in that both fall under the domination not of their own consciousness but of the capital and its economic operations.