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Philosophy

Marx's Concept of Alienation in Modern Society

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Marx argued that under capitalism, workers become alienated not only from the products they make but also from their own humanity—turning what should be a free, creative activity into a forced, meaningless chore.

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Have you ever felt that your work doesn't really belong to you? Or that you're just a cog in a machine, disconnected from what you create? That feeling has a name—and a philosopher built a whole theory around it.