
Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
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The Four Different Ways the Worker Is Alienated Under Capitalism
In the 1844 manuscripts Marx claims that the worker is alienated in four different ways under capitalism. The first one is alienation from the product, but it can be more dramatic than this. What is lost reappears in some sort of alien form and comes back to dominate or oppress human beings. This would be the goal of social thought and action - we do live the good life.
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