Marx held that capitalism alienated the worker in the following five ways:
1. The worker is alienated from the product produced because they are only producing a portion of the product and only playing a small part in a segment of the design, production, or distribution of the product.
2. The worker is alienated from the process of labor itself because they are treated only as a cog in the wheel rather than as a true producer, as a craftsman takes the product from unformed parts to a completed whole.
3. The worker is alienated from nature by not being allowed to take raw materials and recreate them into some other product. Rather, the worker receives the materials with which to work, from a supplier instead of from nature.
4. The worker is alienated from other workers because of the isolation created by the work environment which is a product of the industrial revolution.
5. The worker is alienated from their human potential for freedom and creation by being pressed into a mold to fit the needs of the capitalist.
G. Scott Harrison
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