POLI 1100 Lecture : Alienated Labor.docx
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Argument wasn"t that under capitalism that works become even poorer; the basic idea is that the more the workers produce that capitalist self the more power the capitalist obtain. The workers are producing product they have no ownership over even though they are producing it; owned and controlled by somebody else. People can use that profit to hold power over workers: alienation of the worker from the act of production . Workers under capitalism are getting alienated from their own activity; it becomes not their activity but actively becomes someone else"s activity; they lose self-determination. It is the activity of suffering; the workers physical and mental activity is turned against him and not belonging to him. Self-estrangement of the workers from their own activity; capitalist try to control workers: loss of human species-being . Loss/alienation in the working person, lose their distinctive human. Humans produce things in a very specific way.
