Alienation In Karl Marx's Inside Amazon

When reading the article on “Inside Amazon’. Karl Marx was known for his view of capitalism and how it causes alienation. This article really does portray many aspects of alienation. There are four parts to alienation, the estrangement of alienation, alienation of objectification, object of production and a means to produce. but I will focus on alienation from species-beings. alienation from the act of labor and alienation means to produce. Capitalism is a need to produce commodities that produce profit for the owner. It’s a means of production like in factories, Financial capital, banks. This structure is based on inequality between capitalists and the wage labor worker. The wage worker works to survive. And they are exploited by the capitalist for their profit. To break this down the rich owners of a company like Amazon are out to make a profit from the products it sells. They are not about what can they do for the workers but what can the workers do for them. It …show more content…
You can see a lot of exploitation. In the slave labor under Marx’s theory of value, the concept pertaining to fetishism commodities was seen in the articles. The meaning of fetishism is that labor gives the item value. What we are not truly understanding is how this item was made. Many times, workers are inhumanely treated most of the time in illegal factories attempting to make the outlandish quota that was made. This is where the business is exploiting the workers by asking them to meet a demand that is unrealistic and to treat them like animals and not like people. The workers were made to keep up if not they were fired many were willing to risk their health for someone else’s profit, for example, Cambodia’s seamstresses who were pregnant they wear their clothes tight around their pregnant belly’s. I found out they were fired because the factory said pregnant women are not able to keep up due to frequent toilet