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This 5 page paper looks at Marx's classic work and focuses on ideas about communism and private property. The concept of alienation is also discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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as well as other ideas. Some have called the manuscripts Marxs most humanistic writing (Hunley 1). They are not unlike The Communist Manifesto, except that 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 today, the concept is well
accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and done, the worker does not reap profit. He is paid a pittance for all he
does and the ones who work least, make the most money. The ludicrous nature of such a model is something that Marx would point out and while many embraced his
ideas and even tried to implement his communist model, capitalism would be the ultimate victor in the world, at least in terms of popularity. Marx identified alienated labor as
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