Marx Alienation

Marx's theory of alienation has 4 types. These types are alienation from the product, alienation form people, alienation from work, and alienation from species essence. Marx's believed that we all experience alienation in some way. The only ones he believed that are unalienated are artisans, those who own there own business, works with whom ever he/she wants and loves his/her job. Here I will exam my past job experiences and analyze Marx's notion of alienation. I have had many jobs over the years. I have worked at a day care, worked as a pool manager/ swim instructor , fast food and I have worked retail doing cashier work and department specific work. I feel the one job that fits with Marx's theory of alienation would be my experience in retail. I worked for Wall-Mart for 3 years as a cashier and I worked as a department person, I also worked at Kroger's as a CSM and a cashier for 3 years. These two jobs both exhibit Marx's theories. The first of Marx's theory of alienation we will look at is the alienation from the product. This is simply put that what you produce does not belong to you. As far as my work experience only one of my jobs really apply to this theory and that would be working in fast food. I worked at Taco cabana very briefly. I would make food that I did not own and sold. That alienated me from the …show more content…
This is by working you are alienated from those you love or seek to spend time with because of long hours that you most work. Pretty much every job I have worked I have experienced this. As a pool manager I worked 60 hours a week and would miss out on parties and family events, alienating me from those I loved and cared for. Working any job can cause this. We who are not the bourgeois tend to have no choice but to work leaving us with little time to spend with others that we want to spend time with. Instead we spend time with people we are forced to spend time with, other