The simplest example of labor alienation

The simplest example of labor alienation is as follows:

The theory of labor alienation mainly includes the alienation of labor activities by workers; People are alienated; The class essence of alienation of laborers; Laborers are alienated into products of labor.

Alienated labor, including alienation between man and labor activities, alienation between man and his own class essence, alienation between man and his own labor products and alienation between people, is Marx's concept of alienation. Marx used this concept to summarize the relationship between workers and their labor products and labor itself under the condition of private ownership.

Marx criticized the unscientific alienation theory of predecessors and revealed the most typical alienation essence of capitalist society. Before Marx, all kinds of alienation revealed by people basically stayed on the external phenomenon of alienation. Marx revealed the essential alienation of the external phenomenon that determines alienation, namely alienated labor or labor alienation.

With the help of the concept of alienated labor, Marx preliminarily discussed the objective law of human historical development, and explained the historical inevitability of * * * productism by sublating alienated labor, which played an important role in the history of Marxist formation. In Marx's mature works, although alienated labor has been mentioned, it is no longer used as a theory and method to explain history, but only as a concept to describe the antagonistic relationship between wage labor and capital in capitalist society.

Marx's alienated labor theory aims at criticizing the disadvantages of capital enslavement labor and material rule in capitalist society, and then expounds the future social ideal of sublating alienation and realizing people's free and all-round development. Before China's reform and opening up, the socialist system realized the unity of laborers and labor materials, but there were obvious defects in providing efficiency, wealth and freedom.

The reform and opening-up has made great achievements with the guidance of market economy and the goal of liberating productive forces, but the negative factors of market economy criticized by Marx have not been paid enough attention. Marx's alienated labor theory can provide theoretical support for solving this problem.