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This 5 page paper takes a look at Marx's writing and highlights aspects that concern ethics. Alienation as a concept is discussed as one example of how Marx was concerned about the ethical treatment of human beings. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound insight into the human experience, and promotes ethical
treatment of people. In fact, his ideas about alienation go to the well being of individuals, something many would equate with ethical thinking. This is true despite the fact that
Marx also was interested in large paradigms and global economic systems. He could see both the big picture, and how individuals are affected. The Manuscripts of 1844 were brilliant
contributions to the field of sociology, and something that included much material on the beginnings of communism and so forth. The manuscripts are not unlike The Communist Manifesto, except that
it they are more detailed in nature. The manifesto is cold and direct, whereas the manuscripts contain more specific information on less significant points. In the Manuscripts of 1844,
Marx wrote: "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the
more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it
produces itself and the worker as a commodity--and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally"(Marx PG). Here, Marx paints the poor wage laborer as
someone who is being used. While Marx talks about commodities here, and often speaks in economic terms, at the bottom of it all is a profound caring about the ethical
treatment of workers. The point that comes through most in Marxs observations is that workers are being treated unfairly. Capitalists make their money from other people and while in society
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