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    Karl Marx saw factory labor as alienating workers from their work and products. According to Marx, workers should see themselves in the objects they create to feel fulfilled. However, in factories, the products are disconnected from the workers who produce them. This causes workers to feel like spiritual losses and to be alienated from their own human nature. Marx believed this alienation could be addressed by workers having control and a voice in deciding their work, and by ending the oppression of capitalists who prioritize economic interests over genuine social relationships. Marx saw communism after capitalism as a system where the proletariat would hold political power through a dictatorship and socialize production, distributing wealth equally and allowing freedom and leisure for all through communal ownership.

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    Karl Marx saw factory labor as alienating workers from their work and products. According to Marx, workers should see themselves in the objects they create to feel fulfilled. However, in factories, the products are disconnected from the workers who produce them. This causes workers to feel like spiritual losses and to be alienated from their own human nature. Marx believed this alienation could be addressed by workers having control and a voice in deciding their work, and by ending the oppression of capitalists who prioritize economic interests over genuine social relationships. Marx saw communism after capitalism as a system where the proletariat would hold political power through a dictatorship and socialize production, distributing wealth equally and allowing freedom and leisure for all through communal ownership.

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    Karl Marx saw factory labor as alienating workers from their work and products. According to Marx, workers should see themselves in the objects they create to feel fulfilled. However, in factories, the products are disconnected from the workers who produce them. This causes workers to feel like spiritual losses and to be alienated from their own human nature. Marx believed this alienation could be addressed by workers having control and a voice in deciding their work, and by ending the oppression of capitalists who prioritize economic interests over genuine social relationships. Marx saw communism after capitalism as a system where the proletariat would hold political power through a dictatorship and socialize production, distributing wealth equally and allowing freedom and leisure for all through communal ownership.

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    ALIENATION OF

    LABOR
    “ Work can be a source of joy, but in order to be fulfilled at work,
    workers have to see themselves in the object they have created ”
    -Karl Marx
    Meaningful Labor - means that
    humans can mold nature in a
    desired way, and they can take
    these objects as their own.
    Factory Labor becomes alienated because what it
    produces is disconnected from those who produce it.
    Marx saw this as a spiritual loss; Workers
    becomes alienated from their own nature.
    They cannot see their contribution to the whole, or their
    contribution to the needs of humanity; Workers have no voice
    in deciding what to do. #MeaningfulLabor
    Karl Marx saw capitalists
    as oppressive in other
    words, cruel or grievous.

    Oppressive – Grievous or Cruel


    Laborers unknowingly reproduce the
    conditions for alienation, because their
    products become other people’s private
    property; they can only access it by selling
    their labor, thereby furthering their alienation.
    Bourgeoisie are driven to prioritize economic interests at the
    expense of genuine social relationships, a phenomenon, he
    called commodity fetishism. #ObssesionForGoodsOrProducts
    Bourgeoisie -

    Commodity – goods, article, wares, products, etc.

    Fetish – obsession or desire.


    Products of labor become fetishes,
    to which both laborers and
    capitalists subject themselves to.
    There is a need to be free from
    commodity fetishism in order
    to be humanized.
    Class
    Consciousness
    and Revolution
    “The historical stage come after capitalism will be
    communism”
    -Karl Marx
    The proletariat will rise to abolish the ruling classes, hold
    political power, and forcibly socialize the means of production
    through a dictatorship of the proletariat.
    Society works because the dominant classes have power, and are thus able to
    impose their will on subjugated classes. In controlling the production of
    ideologies, the rich are able to maintain their social positions.
    Unless the poor acquire class conciousness and become aware
    of their own oppression, social change will not take place.
    Even though the capitalists
    control the production of
    ideologies, the working classes
    will be aware of their capacity to
    fight for equality.
    With the birth of class consciousness among the proletariat , the working
    classes would begin to understand the system and create ways of changing it
    Karl Marx believed that social change can also be achieved
    through a revolution, when the workers rise up to overthrow
    the capitalist system.
    Karl Marx believe that once the proletariat are able to abolish the ruling classes, they
    would prevent an exploitative system for taking place, and work towards a system
    that would benefit people equally, in order to get the best out of people.
    Following his dialectical approach, a new system would then emerge, one in which the
    gains of capital– the wealth of the big corp’s– will be reditributed equally to people,
    leading to communal ownership of factories and bussinesses, and to fair treatment for
    everyone. #Communism
    People would be able to enjoy leisure and the freedom to be
    who they want to be through communal ownership of
    production.
    Communism has been interpreted in
    various ways after Karm Marx had died.
    Many of these ideas are far remove from
    Marx’s original intent.
    Thank you for listening. POWER!
    These interpretations of communism have only succeeded in creating
    economic disasters, as well as a different form of oppression, different
    kind of heirarchy and the different sets of ruling classes.

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