Man is supposed to be independent, self-ruling, free, individualistic, and uncontrolled in a
society. Thus, what we see is that workers in a capitalist economy become alienated through
different aspects in one’s life, which ultimately decreases the value of an individual. In the 19th
century, an influential socialist thinker emerged named Karl Marx. He wrote the manuscript
“Alienated Labor”, which speaks about how man simply becomes isolated in his own work and
feels a detachment from his own labor. Alienation can occur in our day to day lives without us
even realizing. Karl Marx explains four different ways man becomes alienated in different
factors in one’s life; alienation from self, creativity and skill, product, and from …show more content…
Furthermore, man can even be compared to an animal in his
actions, because we’ve taken the thinking part out of a man through isolation, and in a sense
turned him into an animal. He does things without even thinking, and basically functions the way
an animal does, which degrades a person. Different factors like not being happy where you work
or being forced to do work can cause alienation from self, which will ultimately isolate man from
his true self.
Another alienation that Karl Marx speaks about is the alienation from skill and creativity.
Skill and creativity in man’s work is the imagination and artistic values he puts in his work based
off of his own innovation. Never less, after the industrial revolution machinery came about and
the useful skills of man weren’t needed and therefore striped away. While the machine produces
commodities of significance and skill, the worker dislikes it because it isn’t really his making.
The worker seemingly enough is a robot working for his products and labor. According to Karl
Marx, he continues to say that the machine “produces intelligence, but for the worker it produces
imbecility and cretinism” (3), meaning to say that machines in a workplace reduce the value of
society. Thus, what we see is that workers in a capitalist economy become alienated through
different aspects in one’s life, which ultimately decreases the value of an individual. In the 19th
century, an influential socialist thinker emerged named Karl Marx. He wrote the manuscript
“Alienated Labor”, which speaks about how man simply becomes isolated in his own work and
feels a detachment from his own labor. Alienation can occur in our day to day lives without us
even realizing. Karl Marx explains four different ways man becomes alienated in different
factors in one’s life; alienation from self, creativity and skill, product, and from …show more content…
Furthermore, man can even be compared to an animal in his
actions, because we’ve taken the thinking part out of a man through isolation, and in a sense
turned him into an animal. He does things without even thinking, and basically functions the way
an animal does, which degrades a person. Different factors like not being happy where you work
or being forced to do work can cause alienation from self, which will ultimately isolate man from
his true self.
Another alienation that Karl Marx speaks about is the alienation from skill and creativity.
Skill and creativity in man’s work is the imagination and artistic values he puts in his work based
off of his own innovation. Never less, after the industrial revolution machinery came about and
the useful skills of man weren’t needed and therefore striped away. While the machine produces
commodities of significance and skill, the worker dislikes it because it isn’t really his making.
The worker seemingly enough is a robot working for his products and labor. According to Karl
Marx, he continues to say that the machine “produces intelligence, but for the worker it produces
imbecility and cretinism” (3), meaning to say that machines in a workplace reduce the value of