human life 49. Karl marx (1818–1883) is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century here marx famously depicts the worker under capitalism as suffering from four types of alienated labour first, from the product, which as soon as it is created is taken.

In the concept's most prominent use, it refers to the economic and social alienation aspect in which workers are disconnected from what they produce and why they produce marx believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism. There are four aspects of alienation that marx wrote about as corresponding to the capitalist mode of production, those being: the alienation of the worker from the products of their labor, thealienation experienced in the production or labor process, alienation from our species-essence or human essence, and finally the alienation of man from. The money exchanged for labor becomes a symbol of the workers alienation as it is the driving force for a worker to survive under capitalism nevertheless, this is not the only form of alienation workers become alienated through the overall process of production. Alienation of the worker from the act of production: the production of goods and services within a capitalist society is repetitive and mechanical that offers little to no psychological satisfaction to the worker labor seems coerced because a worker undertakes this as a means of survival.

Metaphysical sense) to indicate the alienation of the worker from the enjoyment of the products of his labour,