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Summary of Karl Marx essays on Estranged Labour and Alientation

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These notes cover introductory texts to the thinkings and works of Karl Marx and other foundational figures in sociology such as Emile Durkheim or Max Webber. Marx's two essays cover two of his foundational theories, estranged labour and alienation as well as the process of commodification under industrial capitalism and a basic understanding of Marx's historical materialist approach. Additional notes link Marx to the other foundational figures of European Sociology

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Name: Marx Year: 1844 Title: ‘Estranged Labour’
Keywords: Link Contrast:

‘Estranged Labour’ Marx (1844) – German Ideology. Weber- Separation of cult/econ

‘Alienation’ 1-G.Simmel (1903) -Metro and the mental Modernity reading notes – good to use to
life/money economy offers illusion of criticise Marx’s universalism and
‘Alienated Labour’ choice Eurocentrism in the assumptions he makes
about historical development
Weber (2009) – the repressive nature of
Bureaucracy/division of Labour




Main Themes/ Arguments:

Main argument: Estrangement is based in the material relationship of production between man + his
product + those who rob him of the value in his product. His relationship with other men is decided by this
dynamic


Labour produces both men as commodities and commodities


Man devalued
+ becomes a
commidity.
More man produces
commodities more
this occurs

Commodity
increases in
value as men
produce more.




The workers
Labour becomes
embodied in Estrangment
Objectification of
what he
Labour
from product of Alientation
produces, and he Labour
takes less + less
reward from this
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Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx The Marx-Engels Reader
Publisher: 1978-03-17 ISBN: 9780393090406 Edition: 1

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  • industrialisation
  • modernity
  • communism
  • capitalism
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