
[BEST OF] Estranged Labor: Karl Marx on Alienation
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The Perversity of Species Being
The perversity of this mark says lies in the fact that we only feel human in our animal functions and we feel like animals in our human functions. How could any of us not find this state of affairs deeply alienating? After having laid out how workers are alienated from the product of their labor, marks turn towards the sense of alienation which humans have towards themselves under capitalism. And to do this marks articulates his famous concept of species being.
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