a producer of the product. The term alienation in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness, of being alone and apart from others for marx, alienation was not a feeling or a mental condition, but an economic and.

The worker feels alienated from and antagonistic toward the entire system of private property through which the capitalist appropriates both the objects of production for his own enrichment at the expense of the worker and the worker’s sense of identity and wholeness as a human being. Marx applied the concept of alienation to work in industrial capitalist societies, arguing that emancipation for workers lay in their wrestling control away from the small, dominating ruling class later, marxist inspired industrial sociologists used the concept to explore working relations under particular managementsystems in factories. Marx: capitalism and alienation karl marx (1818-83) grew up in germany under the same conservative and oppressive conditions under which kant and other german philosophers had to live. The capitalist purchases from the worker that becomes his property, but the very act of labour that becomes the collective property of the capitalist class the fourth and final concept of alienation for marx was the alienation of the worker from his fellow. Workers then end up resenting these products and marx states, in capitalism the products of labour confront the workers as something alien the second form of alienation discussed is the act of production itself.

His theory of alienation appears to be appropriate even today his first premise was that workers were alienated with their job