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Alienated Labour Rhetorical Analysis

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According to Karl Marx, in Alienated Labor, he believes that labor power becomes a commodity. He states “alienation is shown not only in the result but also in the process of production, in the producing activity itself.” Although Immanuel Kant explains in Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals his different views, his ending principles in philosophy come to agreement with Marx’s views. John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, on the other hand, has a completely different view on the Greatest Happiness Principle. Now, what precisely does Marx mean when he says “Man is a species- being”? Marx states that labor “not only produces commodities. It also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces …show more content…

“Irrational beings are a mean to an end.” (Kant, 28) It additionally implies that we ought to only take in as a maxim the things we would be willing for all of us to live by in a kingdom/world in which those consequences/ends derived to be real. Part of the Categorical Imperative means that you ought to act as though you live in a faultless community and generate your own rules built upon what your obligation is telling you to do. A Kingdom of Ends would be the general public in which all societies were treated as ends within themselves and under no circumstances as means to anyone 's longings/desires. So as an example, “no father will use his son (or anyone else) as a means to his own gratification, but only for the sake of his son 's own benefit” (KOE) Everyone then would be appreciated as individuals, and not as things for somebody 's use. It is a maxim to forbid people from using other individual’s and if they do, they are not handling them as people but as objects. Defining the kingdom (realm) of end, we treat each other as end rather than as means to be used and this kingdom is only an ideal.

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The third type of alienation is the worker’s estrangement from species-being or human identity. According to Karl Marx: “Estranged labour not only (1) estranges nature from man and (2) estranges man from himself, from his own function, from his vital activity; because of this, it also estranges man from his species.” (Marx 1844) Marx argues that work at our best, is what makes us humans. Therefore, the act of turning commodities into an entirely different product is not only the essence but the purpose of human being as well. To Marx, Human’s nature is not separate from activity or work, it includes the possibility

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Marx, equally, believes that the outcome of industrial capitalism is alienation of the proletariat, the working class, from their society.

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In the beginning of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution caused a massive economic spike from small-scale production to large factories and mass production. Capitalism became the prevalent mode of the economy, which put all means of production in the hands of the bourgeoisie, or the upper class. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels argue that capitalism centralizes all the wealth and power in the bourgeoisie, despite the proletariat, or the working class, being the overwhelming majority of the population. The manufacturers would exploit the common proletariat and force them to would work in abysmal conditions and receive low wages, furthering the working class poverty. “The Communist Manifesto” predicts that as a result of the mistreatment

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The main concept of alienated labor was developed by Karl Marx in his early work Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts from 1844 - First Manuscript [Estranged Labor]. As defined, the concept of alienation is profoundly embedded in religions and social and political theories, the possibility that some time in the past individuals feeling like foreigners in the world, however, sooner or later this distance would be overcome and humankind would again harmony with itself and Nature (Encyclopedia of Marxism). Formed from Private Property, the political economy that is Capitalism divided society into two classes¬ - Property owners and Property-Less workers. By exploitation and estrangement, these classes become further designated as masters

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Because Marx believes the worker would “put his [or her] life into the [alien] object” (William, 132) he/she is producing, they are ultimately alienated, unconnected to

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“Direct producers [human laborers] have no alternative but to sell their capacity to labor--their labor power--to the capitalist in return for a wage, which they then turn into the means of existence,”

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