Hobbes And Forced Labor

Hobbes saw people as individuals who is septate from one each other. The human nature of man is one that is solitary and not naturally social. He saw each human being as a sovereign individual whose aim is to preserve the life of themselves. Each person has the interest in survival and the strive to ensure their safety, and as a result, individuals strive away from death and towards life, just as a rock falls downward. They live their lives in constant fear of death and violence towards themselves and their property. As a result of man’s constant battle with the outside world, their lives are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short", and as a result, must do whatever is necessary in order to survive. Hobbes also believed that while people are at a constant warring state with the outside world, they also have strengths and weaknesses that create conditions for them to deal with …show more content…
According to Karl Marx, our current capitalistic society is damaging to individuals who work under forced labor in the modes of production because it produces alienation. We are alienated from what we produce, and we are alienated from the modes of production. The most prominent example is when workers work in factories. Workers produce private property by putting all of their creative energy in the form of monotonous tasks into objects that is not for themselves, but instead for people who likely did not put any work into its creation. Worker work in environments that seek to maximize profits, even at the expense of the workers. This leads to dehumanization. Their bodies, their creativity, and their labor are being used as a means to gain capitol for a few who profit from them. Furthermore, those who profit from worker’s labor do not actively participate in the labor. Instead, they control their workers, who are being reduces to cogs in a machine, which makes them feel