Pros And Cons Of Alienation

Marx mentioned capitalism system in which bourgeoisie owns the means of production and the proletariat must sell their labor-time to the capitalist to survive. Marx explained that in this type of system, capitalist are the ones who have private ownership of the means of production in which they make workers produce commodities for exchange in the market. These commodities that are produced are not essentially used immediately but they are mostly used, in the view of the capitalist, to be exchanged in the market. The most important thing to these capitalists is the surplus value. They only care about how much money they are making a profit. In order to make a profit, the labors suffer through many types of exploitation that surrounds the work …show more content…
He explained that there are types of alienation that occurs, workers are alienated from their productive activity, from their product, from other workers, and from their own human potential. I think these types of alienation still occur today when it comes to alienation from other workers, the disruption of the capitalist system causes workers to compete with each other. I think that we still compete against each other because we are blind to the real problem that is that the capitalist system and how it pushes us to these circumstances. We continue to affirm this idea by competing against each other and not teaming up to challenge it. We tend to compete with each other in order to gain higher positions, more money or just the mere fact of keeping their jobs but we do not see how unequal the system is.
Another type of alienation that is present today is alienation from their own human potential. Today there are many factories that have assembly lines or machinery. Both cause these workers to feel less human and more like machines because they are just focusing on a specific task and have no creativity sense or spin of uniqueness that can be provided by humans to put on the actual …show more content…
I think that there is a collective effervescence among a community of fans, for instance, they wear jerseys and some have rituals such as not washing their jerseys until the season is over, I personally took part in that belief. There are some people who are really into these collective effervescences and collective conscience that during home games especially in football games, during your team is on offense, the crowd generally stays quiet but when the other team is on offense that’s when there is a collective conscience in how to conduct such as yell and scream as loud as you can to not enable the opposite team to hear their