Karl Marx

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ory of alienation has to do with the
relationship of the worker to the means of production. It outlines four
main aspects in which workers are alienated in today’s society: the
workers are alienated from the products of their labor, alienated from
the process of their work, are denied the chance to be creative, and
physically alienated from other people. Although, Marx developed this
theory in 1844, I believe it applys more to today’s developed
society. Alienation, to a large extent, is probably the most depressing
part even in today’s post-industrial society. Alienation is an accepted
part of work; people focus mainly on satisfying their immediate
material desires. Society looks highly upon those few lucky individuals who have
jobs that not only takes care of their need for material objects,
security, belonging, and esteem, but also help them to develop their
highest level of potential. One could argue that alienation is
self-inflicted by each and every one of us. Perhaps the perfect job is
out there for everyone. I think most people have thought about quitting
their jobs and opening some sort of business so they can be their own
boss’s. Perhaps we allow our materialism to control our dreams. Caught
up in the new morals and values of the post-industrial,
consumer-oriented society, we place higher emphasis on fitting in with
society than we do on fulfilling our own personal wants and needs. We
suffer alienation so that we can possess status materials such as ...