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| 24303 | Alienation is from the product, the work, the human achievement, and from fellow humans |
| Full Idea: Marx sees four types of alienation: from the product of labour, from the activity of work itself, from a worker's species-being [Gattungswesen, the distinctive human power], and from other humans. | |||
| From: report of Karl Marx (Paris Manuscripts [1844]) by Jaime Edwards/Brian Leiter - Marx 1.4 | |||
| A reaction: [summary by PG] A helpful breakdown of the concept. It invites the question of whether the four are united, or whether some could occur without others. A happy team doing alienated labour; a dreary life doing something worthwhile. |