Alienation
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CORE DEFINITION
In capitalist production, workers are separated from the products of their labor, the labor process, their species-essence, and other people. People create forces (such as technology/capital) that ultimately enslave them.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Workplace perspective: When you feel that 'work is just for money, meaningless,' you are experiencing alienation. Understanding this can help you transform 'self-disgust' into 'critique of structure' and seek a way out.
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Alienation refers to the phenomenon where the products, institutions, or social relations created by people come to dominate and estrange their creators, disconnecting them from their own essence. Marx used it to describe the estrangement of labor from the product, the process, species-essence, and other people.
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienationverified
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