Human beings are, in some sense, enslaved to the production for the owners of factories on assembly lines. Our human nature arises from the historical condition and social structures. What it means to be a human and the question of who we are, comes from the need to reach out the meaning of our identity. In other words, what makes us what we are depends on the part that social institutions have played in a historically conditioned society, a society that has changed throughout time. The social structures classify the workers in a society that force them to work in factories where they suffer the worst inhumane conditions.
Firstly, the structures of society are forces of production in economic, social and political terms. In 1844 (when was the …show more content…
What it is that constitute a human being is his free conscious activities; his freedom, and that is what he loses in this social structure.
Free conscious activity goes beyond human rights in its basic form and all the conditions that constitute the workers experience in his workplace. Human being needs to satisfy material needs; it is part of our nature. We cannot survive without food or clothing, and that is part of our physical necessities, but that becomes a priority while working on the assembly lines, our physical needs replace our purpose of being human, our means in life and that is the only part that matters, everything else is irrelevant. If we only embrace our physical needs, we are not free, or rather we are not acting willingly.
The worker will not be able to generate his values freely in a hostile environment where in his misery he makes the factories increase its profits while his dreams and ideals are diminished and inevitably collapsed. Ultimately, the worker is the result of what he creates in a relationship between production and what he generates in work. In other words, there is no purpose in life and that leads to the “loss of self-creation” (Karl Marx 680) the worker loses his chance to defined who he is because of the systems in the industrial revolution of the assembly lines and the
Firstly, the structures of society are forces of production in economic, social and political terms. In 1844 (when was the …show more content…
What it is that constitute a human being is his free conscious activities; his freedom, and that is what he loses in this social structure.
Free conscious activity goes beyond human rights in its basic form and all the conditions that constitute the workers experience in his workplace. Human being needs to satisfy material needs; it is part of our nature. We cannot survive without food or clothing, and that is part of our physical necessities, but that becomes a priority while working on the assembly lines, our physical needs replace our purpose of being human, our means in life and that is the only part that matters, everything else is irrelevant. If we only embrace our physical needs, we are not free, or rather we are not acting willingly.
The worker will not be able to generate his values freely in a hostile environment where in his misery he makes the factories increase its profits while his dreams and ideals are diminished and inevitably collapsed. Ultimately, the worker is the result of what he creates in a relationship between production and what he generates in work. In other words, there is no purpose in life and that leads to the “loss of self-creation” (Karl Marx 680) the worker loses his chance to defined who he is because of the systems in the industrial revolution of the assembly lines and the