Explaining Marx
In Karl Marx's early writing on "estranged labour" there is a clear and prevailing focus on the plight of the labourer. Marx's writing on estranged labour is and attempt to draw a stark distinction between property owners and workers. In the writing Marx argues that the worker becomes estranged from his labour because he is not the recipient of the product he creates. As a result labour is objectified, that is labour becomes the object of mans existence. As labour is objectified man becomes disillusioned and enslaved. Marx argues that man becomes to be viewed as a commodity worth only the labour he creates and man is further reduced to a subsisting animal void of any capacity of freedom except the will to labour. For Marx this all leads to the emergence of private property, the enemy of the proletariat. In fact Marx's writing on estranged labour is a repudiation of private property- a warning of how private property enslaves the worker. This writing on estranged labour is an obvious point of basis for Marx's Communist Manifesto. The purpose of this paper is to view Marx's concept of alienation (estranged labour) and how it limits freedom. For Marx man's freedom is relinquished or in fact wrested from his true
" In further argument Marx's states that "liberty as a right of man is not founded upon the relationship between man and man; but rather upon the separation of man from man. This point of the argument stands up of course only if you believe money can by freedom. Marx's writings on estranged labour and in The Communist Manifesto are a clear repudiation of private property. 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. Posistive freedoms then are the freedoms Marx likley wishes to uphold by denouncing estarnged labour. The emerging condition is that he works to create more work. For the sake of ease the scope of this study will be limited to two (2) classifications of freedom: prescribed (positive) freedom and negative liberties. Given this condition the labourer belongs to someone else and is therefore enslaved. To help expand on this theme it is useful to look at Marx's allegory of man's life-activity. As a result of being enslaved the worker is reduced to a "subsisting animal", a condition alien to him. Man is reduced to chattel, a commodity, the private property of another individual.
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