Revealing Marx

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fact wrested from his true nature once he becomes a labourer. This process is
thoroughly explained throughout Estranged Labour. This study will reveal this
process and argue it's validity. Appendant to this study on alienation there
will be a micro-study which will attempt to ascertain Marx's view of freedom
(i.e. positive or negative). The study on alienation in conjunction with the
micro-study on Marx's view of freedom will help not only reveal why Marx feels
labour limits mans freedom, but it will also identify exactly what kind of
freedom is being limited. Estranged Labour

Karl Marx identifies estranged labour as labour alien to man. Marx explains the
condition of estranged labour as the result of man participating in an
institution alien to his nature. It is my interpretation that man is alienated
from his labour because he is not the reaper of what he sows. Because he is
never the recipient of his efforts the labourer lacks identity with what he
creates. For Marx then ...

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he cannot attain what he appropriates. As a result of this
realization the objectification of labour occurs. For the worker the labour
becomes an object, something shapeless and unidentifiable. Because labour is
objectified, the labourer begins to identify the product of labour as labour. In
other words all the worker can identify as a product of his labour, given the
condition of what he produces as a shapeless, unidentifiable object, is labour.
The worker is then left with only labour as the end product of his efforts. The
emerging condition is that he works to create more work. For Marx the monotonous
redundancy of this condition is highly detrimental because the worker ...

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