Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Karl Marx
Red Menace
The Argument for Alienation Under Capitalism
marks argues that given the fact that we are alienated from our productive activity we are by definition alienated from ourselves or our nature as human beings. The logic leads inexorably to the relations of production where someone is alienated from their labor and someone else benefits from this alienation which in turn is shown to be rooted in the existence of private property. It follows that the emancipation of society from private property is expressed in the political form of the emancipation of the workers not that their emancipation alone is at stake but because it contains universal human emancipation.
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