Karl Marx Alienation Of Labor

The alienation of labor is an interesting topic in which Marx examines man’s labor as an entity separate from his production. Within the model of capitalism, that is the intricate workings of it, Marx argues that the worker is diminished to a commodity – “ The worker becomes a commodity that is all the cheaper the more commodities he creates. The depreciation of the human world progresses in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things [86].” In this paper I will be highlighting key points and will attempt to delineate what Marx believes to be the cause of alienation of labor in society.
Marx begins his approach of analyzing the alienation of labor by first making evident that there are two classes at work in the capitalist

“According to the laws of political economy the alienation of the worker in his object is expressed as follows: the more the worker produces ,the less he has to consume, the more value he creates the more valueless and worthless he becomes, the more formed the product the more deformed the worker, the more civilized the product, the more barbaric the worker, the more cultured the work the more philistine the worker becomes and more of a slave to nature

Marx, states, “ How would the worker be able to affront the product of his work as an alien being if he did not alienate himself in the act of production itself? [Pg.88]“ The imposition of such a question is to further look into the dehumanization process within the capitalist mode of production. Marx questions the relationship that the worker has with the actual “producing” of his product. The final product in which the worker produces is, as Marx states a summary of his labor; therefore, the “activity” of producing is the focus point of alienation. Furthermore, in the activity of producing, the worker dissociates himself from his labor because he has no connection with the product he is producing, that is his labor does not belong to him → “Finally, the external character of labour for the worker shows itself in the fact that it is not his own but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that he does not belong to himself in his labour but to someone