Question

When workers make only part of an object rather than the whole product, they have less of a relationship with the fruits of their labor. Karl Marx suggested that this changed relationship with the objects they were producing created a feeling of____________________________.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is: alienation

Explanation:

In Karl Marx's major life's work, entitled "Capital: A Critique of Political Economy", the german philosopher studies the economic and political system under the capitalist mode of production as well as its contradictions, and finally predicts its own destruction and the uprising of a global proletariat.

In this context, Marx's Theory of Alienation proposes that, under the capitalist mode of production, where labor is just another commodity that can be exchanged in the market, as well as the only resource that a worker has to offer (as opposed to the means of production that the capitalists own), the worker is separated from any sense of agency in relation to the product of his own work. This subjective state of mind induced by the objective conditions of labor in the capitalist society is called alienation.