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Karl Marx Alienation Of Workers Summary

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Everyone is equal and have equal values as everyone else, is not the case for Marx. Karl Marx is a German philosopher, social theorist, and revolutionary thinker, well known for his manuscripts, for example The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. This manuscript specifically talks about the exploitation and alienation of humans because of the new arriving concept, capitalism. Alienation of workers is the result of capitalism and turns human labor into a commodity that allows the dehumanization of workers, by taking away their creativity, and exploitation of their rights. Alienation of workers, according to Marx, begins with capitalism and determining the value of human labor. Marx uses the term political economy relationship when …show more content…

The way Marx’s explains class is the bourgeoisie, the rich/noble, and the proletariat are, the poor/working class, and for example, these are the factory owners and wage laborers that contribute to the alienation of a human being. The bourgeoisie look for wage workers to pay cheaply to produce commodities and profit, and worker to work quickly and cheaply. In turn, the wage-worker providing their labor has to work for a living, but also to produce money for the bourgeoisie to increase their margin of capita. To make a profit, leads to paying workers low wages (hourly/monthly/yearly), “The worker becomes poorer the richer is his production, the more it increases in power and scope,” (pg. 4). Marx argues that the more time the wage worker invests producing products the poorer the worker becomes in money and as a …show more content…

8). Not only are the workers being exploited from their basic needs, but alienated from other humans, even those superior to them, and lower the value of work and the worker. Referring again to the New York Time article the vice president make a comment, “‘ We believe our wages are competitive,’” (Greenhouse pg.5) and this enforces Marx idea that competition and the want to increase capita is the reason alienation in the workspace is an issue and dehumanizes workers. This overall idea of exploitation alienates the worker, not only from their job, but from others as well, which is what capitalism contributes to the

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