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This 4 page paper focuses on an article about Hurricane Katrina and relates it to Marx's alienation. Comments by the article's author are used to make the point that modern society contains a great deal of alienation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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ones being. It was not necessarily that a person felt out of sorts, or antisocial, but that something was not meshing right with the outside world. People did not take
pride in what they did because they did not own the means of production. They were not able to create something from start to finish. Instead, they were viewed as
a cog in a machine. Today, one can see alienation in the faces of the Wal-Mart clerk, but alienation is really more than dissatisfaction with a job. What is alienation
and why is it relevant today? First, it should be noted that Karl Marx really did take a great deal of time to address the concept. It is something for
which he is well known. The editor of The Portable Marx comments: "To some, Mans philosophical critique of modern society-his concern with freedom, universality, and rationality, his treatment of the
distinction between the social and the political, and his development of the concept of alienation-seems, more interesting and perhaps more lasting than his subsequent analysis of the social and economic
ramifications of private property in the means of production or his associated doctrines of class struggle, of the economic contradictions of capitalism, and of the coming expropriation of the expropriators"
(Marx, 1983, p.75-76). Here, it is suggested that perhaps Marxs contribution was more pertinent as it involves the concept of alienation and how man deals with society than with simple
economic realities. It is, to some extent, how people integrate things in their lives that really matters. One recent event that tested human kindness was Hurricane Katrina. While some people
rushed to help, and donated to the Red Cross for example, there were many people in Louisiana looting. Why was that the case? It seems that the people claimed that
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