PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Communist Manifesto, Man Man, Human Nature
13 Dec 2013
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In 1848 (age 30) wrote the communist manifesto dies at age 65. Alienated labour (1844) focusing mainly on what is wrong with the status quo, rather than his account on how to fix it. Workers are alienated in four ways: 1) the product of their work (1-2, 2) the act of production (2, 3) their species being (2-3) Poverty and terrible things for the workers. Act of production is tied most importantly to having a meaningful life. Point of life is having a creative working life. The worker is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying external to it. In alienating conditions, work is only instrumentally good the only thing good about work is that you get a paycheque and you can use it to buy the things that you want.
