Estranged Labor In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx
Estranged Labor In The Communist Manifesto, Marx illustrates how the working class in society is alienated, under the system of private property, in several ways such from the product of their labor, the work itself, from species-being, and from each other. This private property the workers work on is owned by a minute portion of the population who, in exchange for mass production of their product, put their employees through unfair labor conditions. This leads Marx to believe that a human being puts all of his life into working on a product, while working for a capitalist system, but never gets to use it hence, becoming alienated from the product and important parts of life. In essence, the worker will also become alienated in distinct ways. In the following paragraphs, Marx views on working
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This quote communicates to the reader that the Bourgeois don't want to lose the Proletariat physically but in fact, they are losing them because the work the Proletariat are doing is making them become extinct in terms that they are no longer becoming human. The little things a person does at home like spend time with his family, perform hobbies during his leisure time, maintain his home, etc. which makes him human, is no longer part of the person's life as he becomes a worker, a Proletarian, the class in society that is mistreated and looked down upon. Marx has pointed how a worker loses his life and himself to the product of his creation and even becomes estranged from his own class but in essence, his life, himself, and his whole social class is what makes them a culture. However, the Proletariat, although a human species, no longer become a species as their work removes their culture from inside of each
This quote communicates to the reader that the Bourgeois don't want to lose the Proletariat physically but in fact, they are losing them because the work the Proletariat are doing is making them become extinct in terms that they are no longer becoming human. The little things a person does at home like spend time with his family, perform hobbies during his leisure time, maintain his home, etc. which makes him human, is no longer part of the person's life as he becomes a worker, a Proletarian, the class in society that is mistreated and looked down upon. Marx has pointed how a worker loses his life and himself to the product of his creation and even becomes estranged from his own class but in essence, his life, himself, and his whole social class is what makes them a culture. However, the Proletariat, although a human species, no longer become a species as their work removes their culture from inside of each