Revealing Marx
Date Submitted: 11/28/2004 03:56:17
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
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freedom, as was identified above, is the freedom to pursue specified options. That is, freedom to
do certain things. Man is not necessarily given a choice of what these options are, he is simply free to
pursue them whatever they may be. Posistive freedoms then are the freedoms Marx likley wishes to
uphold by denouncing estarnged labour.
Bibliography
1Marx, Karl, The Early Marx, (reserve packet)
2Marx, Karl and Engles, Freidrich, The Communist Manifesto, London, England, 1888
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