Revealing Marx
Revealing Marx
In Karl Marx's early writing on "estranged labour" there is a clear and
prevailing focus on the plight of the labourer. Marx's writing on estranged
labour is and attempt to draw a stark distinction between property owners and
workers. In the writing Marx argues that the worker becomes estranged from his
labour because he is not the recipient of the product he creates. As a result
labour is objectified, that is labour becomes the object of mans existence. As
labour is objectified man becomes disillusioned and enslaved. Marx argues that
man becomes to be viewed as a commodity worth only the labour he creates and man
is further reduced to a subsisting animal void of any capacity of freedom except
the will to labour. For Marx this all leads to the emergence of private property,
the enemy of the proletariat. In fact Marx's writing on estranged labour is a
repudiation of private property- a warning of how private property enslaves the
worker. This writing on estranged......
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