Revealing Marx

Revealing Marx In Karl Marx's early writing on "estranged labour" there is a clear and prevailing focus on the plight of the labourer. Marx's writing on estranged labour is and attempt to draw a stark distinction between property owners and workers. In the writing Marx argues that the worker becomes estranged from his labour because he is not the recipient of the product he creates. As a result labour is objectified, that is labour becomes …

…freedom, as was identified above, is the freedom to pursue specified options. That is, freedom to do certain things. Man is not necessarily given a choice of what these options are, he is simply free to pursue them whatever they may be. Posistive freedoms then are the freedoms Marx likely wishes to uphold by denouncing estranged labour. Bibliography 1Marx, Karl, The Early Marx, (reserve packet) 2Marx, Karl and Engles, Freidrich, The Communist Manifesto, London, England, 1888