SOCI 2040 Chapter 4: Readings Week 4-Marx III pages 47-69
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Introduction to the economic and philosophic manuscripts: marx examines the condition of alienation or estrangement. For marx, alienation is inherent in capitalism, because of the process of production and the results of our labor confront us as a dominating power. From the economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844: Page 49 not considering the direct relationship between the worker and the product. In the double respect the worker becomes a slave to the object: first in that he receives the object of labour and secondly, he receives means of subsistence. What constitutes the alienation of labor: first, labor is external to the worker, it does not belong to his essential being. The workers therefore only feel himself outside of work and in his work, feels outside himself: his labor is therefore voluntary but coerced; it is forced labor. In the earliest times the principle of production seemed to be in service of the gods, the product belonged to the gods.
