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Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their selves. Alienation is a consequence of the division of labour in a capitalist society, wherein a human being's life is lived as a mechanistic part of a social class .
Marx explains that if the product of labor does not belong to the worker but to another person, this alienation arises because the worker’s activity is controlled by someone else. [36] The key point, Marx concludes, is that private property, which seems to precede alienated labor, is actually a consequence of it. [37]
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Alienation, for Marx, is the estrangement of humans from aspects of their human nature. Since – as we have seen – human nature consists in a particular set of vital drives and tendencies, whose exercise constitutes flourishing, alienation is a condition wherein these drives and tendencies are stunted.
To overcome alienation and allow humankind to realize its species-being, it is not enough, as Hegel and Feuerbach believe, to simply understand alienation. It is necessary to transform the world that engenders alienation: the wage-labor system must be transcended, and the separation of the laborer from the means of labor abolished.
In the case of cooperation and manufacture, capital's appropriation of concrete labor appears to be a question of ownership. However, in large-scale industries, the productive forces of concrete labor are no longer those of the workers, and labor is already constituted in an alienated form, separated and opposed to the workers.
Tyson’s ex-husband Tom Oddo sued Tyson in 2000, winning what was then a record judgment of $1.4 million in an alienation of affection lawsuit. In 2003, an appeals court knocked the decision down ...
[1] [2] There would be little, if any, need for a state, the goal of which was to enforce the alienation of labor; [1] as such, the state would eventually wither away as its conditions of existence disappear.