SOCB42H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Alienation (marx: the concept of experiencing not in tune with yourself. The capitalist form of production produces mass alienation. To understand what it is not to be alienated. Expressing who you are in the product (objectification). Capitalism is a two class system according to. That owner pays you a basic wage in the right to use your labour. You are a tool to express his ideas. The work becomes narrow and boring and you are working to get out of work to go do something else. You find meaning in something else other than work. When it should be: 2) alienated from product: you get alienated from the product of your labour too. Does not give you connections just because you created it, but it is not your idea. If you want to consume and use the thing that you made, does not give you privilege access to it.