The Walking Dead Marx Alienation Analysis

Marx’s theory of alienation is a tough concept to digest and is a far cry from the commonly used definition. In looking at the definition; isolation, estrangement and the act of turning away are useful clues a clue to Marx use of the word to describe the relationship between labor and man. Marx’s concept of alienation stems from man’s activity, went but to toward the goal of production. Marx in Estranged Labour held “the worker to his own activity as an alien activity not belonging to him; it is activity as suffering, strength as weakness, begetting as emasculating,…[thus] Here we have self-estrangement, as previously we had the estrangement of the thing.” Essentially Marx held that as a species-being that production was part of man’s nature …show more content…
The Walking Dead is a post-apocalyptic zombie drama. The world is inhabited by zombies called walkers that seek to eat the flesh of the living. There is no society as we know it today, no electric, gas, or running water. There is no production or factories thus no workers; this is Marxism to the extreme. Society has devolved to a survival of the fittest only the strong will survive mentality. The living while being ever vigilant against walkers must be keenly aware of the true enemy; the other living who will do anything to survive.
Freed from subsistence working is a man any less alienated? Is he think the high-minded “species-life” that Marx hope of? The answer, in short, is no. The inhabitant of the Walking Dead world has traded the estrangement and alienation from worker to the mere survivor. The act of surviving which were unthinkable and the unfathomable before the fall of society has become commonplace thus man is in both case is a slave to living and is estranged from his ideal or true