Abstract:For Karl Marx, in his writings on alienation, workers not only suffered from the objective realities of poverty, squalor, and poor health, but, neither owning their tools nor the products of their labor sold for wages, were alienated, estranged from themselves, their full human potentials, and Nature. They were powerless, without freedom. They were denied recognition, objectified, rendered dehumanized things, simply costs of production. Marx expected such conditions would lead to mass mobilizations to overthro… Show more
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