Alienation
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The Importance of Leisure Time
For Marx, leisure time is in many ways a pristine state that is free of alienation brought about by the activity of working in a factory. According to Marx, humans have freedom. In comparison with non-human animals, we are able to stand apart from nature and produce our own creations according to the laws of beauty. What happens in alienated labor is that we actually not only lose our human capacities by virtue of not being free or able to realize ourselves through creative activity, he says.
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