Marx's Arguments Against Modern Labor Practices

Karl Marx argues that modern labor practices lead to the alienation of human beings from the product of their work. He states that human beings will become alienated from their product because there will be no “pride” in the product, humans will become alienated from one’s own labor because the task will be so mindless that it will become autonomous, losing his free will, humans will become alienated from others because todays labor practices are based on everyone fighting for the best jobs; forcing everyone to only look out for themselves, and finally alienation from oneself in the sense that what people contribute to the world is a manifestation of oneself and when we do not have to be creative we begin to lose who we are as people. More like people will live to work instead of work being an extension of our own being. I disagree with Marx on his idea of alienation because people it is impossible for someone to come completely alienated from everything because they did not have full hands on experience with the creation of the product. Karl Marx first argues against modern labor practices by saying that people will become alienated in four ways, from their product, from their labor, from their counterparts and finally from

“the more the worker produces the less he has to consume, the more value he has to creates the more worthless he becomes, the more civilized the product the more barbarous the worker; the more the work manifests in intelligence the more the worker declines in intelligence and become a slave to labor” (496). Meaning that the more quantity and quality the worker will produce the more devalued he becomes making him just a component to the product instead of the full creator. He will suffer from a lack of pride in the product because of object will assume an external existence and will exist outside of himself and alien to