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Karl Marx Alienated Labor

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Alienation comes from the word alienus or alienare which means estrange to1. Alienation in terms of Karl Marx’s theory can be defined as “a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.2” Karl Marx believed that work at its natural state is what makes us human because it fulfills our “species being.3” Work allows us to grow, to be inventive, to live; however, this reality is ripped away from workers, particularly, those who have nothing to sell but their labor. Therefore, workers have no choice but to work long hours for a minimum wage; thus, their labor alienates them because they are being exploited and have no relation with
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