Revealing 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…
