Marx Alienation Essay

For Marx, alienation involved both a description of certain features of capitalism society and a value judgment that they are fundamentally wrong. Although it is not easy to tell which features he is criticizing. He was not totally condemnatory of capitalism: he acknowledged that it leads to a great increase in productivity. Marx believed that capitalism is a necessary stage through which society has to go, but he thought that it will be surpassed.
Alienation is a relation, Marx wrote in one place that alienation is “from man himself and from nature.” For him, “Nature” seems to mean the humanly made word, so presumably he thought that people are not ehat they should be because they are alienated from the products they create and from the social relations involved in production. People without capital have to sell their labor in order to survive and are therefore in a position to be exploited by the owners of industrial capital, who dictate the terms of their employment.
His work is forced on him as a means for satisfying other needs, and at work he does not “belong to himself” he is under the control of together people. Even the materials he uses and the other objects he objects he produces are alien to him because they are owned by someone else. Sometimes Marx seems to be blaming alienation on the use of money as means of exchange that reduces all social relationships to a common commercial