Karl Marx

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Karl Marx

In today 's society work occupies a substantial proportion of most people 's lives , and has often been taken as a symbol of personal value It provides status , economic rewards , a demonstration of religious faith , and a manner in which to realize one 's potential . However , it also represents the opposite evaluation : labor can be back-breaking and mentally incapacitating labor camps are punishment centers work is a punishment for original sin , and something one would rather avoid

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pre-industrial societies many identified each other not so much by what they did , however by their social relationships as wife , husband son , locksmith or servant . Recognizing people by their social status and naming them accordingly occurred well before the industrial revolution and was particularly common in medieval cities . But the social identification of people primarily with their place in the economy became more typically common in the modern industrial societies .In the modern society that we live in work has affected us in many ways . Due to work , our eating habits have hanged real food is known to us as luxury and has been replaced by packaged , frozen , tinned microwavable instant meals . Food must be quick and easy to prepare as nobody has time to prepare them . Society has evolved to a point to which work has become socially necessary . It is needed for the functioning of society and the people that comprise of it

For Karl Marx the material results of labor were significant , in so far as they embodied uniquely human attributes : self- realization through work was at the heart of Marx 's Communist Vision . He believed that human nature and development were not induced through thoughts and ideas as Hegel suggested , but rather the driving force for historical change was without a doubt conflict . According to Marx , conflict is classified as work as it changes our world and provides us with the basic means to freedom and liberation from necessity . He believed that conflict was necessary for progress and as such , resulted in full enlightenment and liberation of the human species . This forms the basis of Marx 's beliefs on materialism , that human beings achieve the fullest of their humanity through their labor . It is through labor an essentially social process , that the human world is created

In Marx 's view capitalism inverted the world of work and turned it against the workers , thus not just preventing them from realizing themselves but actually developing a system through which work became the source of anti humanism and the origin of exploitation the capitalist mode of production affects the worker exposed to it by mortifying his body and ruining his mind . He strongly believed that individuals could only realize their self-potential outside of work territory . The workers have nothing to lose but their chains

Today one sees shareholders and owners of organizations making large profits while producers of the goods produced for that organization are heavily exploited and treated detrimentally . According...