What do you think?
Rate this book
Estranged Labor
ebook
4 people are currently reading
163 people want to read
About the author
Karl Marx
3,329 books6,795 followersWith the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) and
Das Kapital
(1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 reviews
December 5, 2021
Either the writing is dense or I am, but this is not uninteresting
November 30, 2015
It's extremely unfortunate that the rest of the manuscript has not been preserved, but part of Marx's lifelong and intense deconstruction of political economy can still be sufficiently appreciated in what remains of this classic.
November 8, 2022
This is so fetch
August 4, 2023
Reflexão banger sobre formas (4) de alienação do trabalhador no capitalismo (que em tudo desapropria o trabalhador!!)
Linguagem um bocado custosa
Linguagem um bocado custosa
March 6, 2025
actually enjoyed this a lot more than i thought i would, while hating every second of it cuz it’s so goddamn true. how lucky am i to enter a career that doesn’t estrange me from my very existence — instead, it brings me closer to my soul, something that many people can only dream of. marx had to have a crystal ball or something the way that not only to panned out to be true but things have only worsened and the accumulation of capital seems to be the only thing driving most people. let’s see how CC will give me even more insights
February 6, 2021
Didn't read this three times to comprehend it to NOT log it into my Goodreads... anyway thought this was super interesting! Marx went awf when he said needing one another is a part of the human condition, something embedded into our DNA. Like yes! We are put on this Earth to take care of one another! Exploitation and competition is not in our DNA! Legend
May 7, 2021
I personally found Marx's writing style difficult to understand, but all of the points I understood were interesting and, I believe, still relevant today.
June 10, 2025
This bful text is an example of 'Man therefore also forms objects in accordance with the laws of beauty'
in also showing how in finding ourselves inert in creating such beauty for and by us '...the worker's spontaneous activity belongs to another. It is the loss of his self.'
in also showing how in finding ourselves inert in creating such beauty for and by us '...the worker's spontaneous activity belongs to another. It is the loss of his self.'
March 18, 2020
This is my first introduction to the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844... God damn, if this didn't blow me away.
August 12, 2023
4,5*
Upss, sublinhei tudo...!
Terei de reler num futuro próximo para tirar apontamentos. Talvez compre o livro das edições 70 onde este manuscrito está incluído, quem sabe (o impulso sabe)...
Upss, sublinhei tudo...!
Terei de reler num futuro próximo para tirar apontamentos. Talvez compre o livro das edições 70 onde este manuscrito está incluído, quem sabe (o impulso sabe)...
September 20, 2023
HE WAS SO FUCKING REAL FOR THIS!!! "The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things." thank you to my marxist prof for assigning this reading to us 🩷🩷🤭🤭🤗
September 29, 2023
Dense but very interesting. The concept of alienation (borrowed from Hegel) is at the core of Marx's critique of capitalism. This manuscript explores the concept of alienated labor in a very philosophical way, as opposed to the more analytical style of later writing like Capital. I liked this quote:
“It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back into barbarous types of labor and it turns the other section into a machine.”
“It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back into barbarous types of labor and it turns the other section into a machine.”
September 20, 2023
loved how marx conceptualized the estranged relationship between laborer and work. by actually providing a term for it, it makes me, as a laborer, expand out from my association with work as the sole means of wage. perhaps the counter movement of labor estrangement is tech industry's pushing of work as religion, creating purpose in work that is not just money but actual intrinsic meaning.
November 9, 2023
Fascinating how he wanted to give philosophy a more political meaning not just finding truths like traditional philosophy
Idk didn’t speak to me much
I much preferred Plato which triggered more thinking and ‘how can this apply to achieving virtues in my own life’ ideas
Idk didn’t speak to me much
I much preferred Plato which triggered more thinking and ‘how can this apply to achieving virtues in my own life’ ideas
November 12, 2022
I'm glad he read Hegel, and decided to disagree. (In style at least)
January 5, 2024
Ever so relevant today
July 16, 2024
Neat introduction to Marx's ideology that, like most critical and theoretical texts, is written to make it as hard as possible to grasp the ideas on display.
November 3, 2025
Another read for my humanities class, ya know good ol Karl talking about private ownership vs the laborers, the usual
April 12, 2026
super interesting to read. it inspires me to investigate more about how the body physically mutates as an example of alientated labour…
November 11, 2024
What I wrote to Janak
Workers become a commodity due to their production and become more commodified as they continue to work. The worker doesn't necessarily reap the wealth their production provides which inturn makes them a cheaper commodity.
Labour's product is tangible and causes objectification. Removing the humanity behind labour's product which is labor causes alienation.
The worker is a servant to the object that is labour because it is what allows subsistence. Labour forces reliance due to it providing you work and in turn providing you subsistence. You are first a worker and secondly a subject. Marxx says if you're forced to work for subsistence then its forced labour.
A bunch of stuff about how a worker is alienated if the above is true because the product of labour is not their own and therefore their work-self is seperate from their individual self which is found outside of work. How work is not satisifying but a means to satisfy external needs because that's when you are an individual. *If this is what he means by the whole sensus world relationship stuff i get it. if not i don't get it
I don't get the whole life activity and species being. Is he just saying that we would be more content if we produced only for ourselves but now to meet our individual needs we need to produce for others? That we can only freely produce for ourselves once we've met our own personal needs which means to meet other's needs first?
He then talks about how the product of labour provides satisfaction to another meaning man is the applicator of the alienifcation. That in indulging in the product of labour you are also doing that to another worker and this is capitalism.
How is estranged labour the cause of private property? The fact that the labour's product is property (building)?
Workers become a commodity due to their production and become more commodified as they continue to work. The worker doesn't necessarily reap the wealth their production provides which inturn makes them a cheaper commodity.
Labour's product is tangible and causes objectification. Removing the humanity behind labour's product which is labor causes alienation.
The worker is a servant to the object that is labour because it is what allows subsistence. Labour forces reliance due to it providing you work and in turn providing you subsistence. You are first a worker and secondly a subject. Marxx says if you're forced to work for subsistence then its forced labour.
A bunch of stuff about how a worker is alienated if the above is true because the product of labour is not their own and therefore their work-self is seperate from their individual self which is found outside of work. How work is not satisifying but a means to satisfy external needs because that's when you are an individual. *If this is what he means by the whole sensus world relationship stuff i get it. if not i don't get it
I don't get the whole life activity and species being. Is he just saying that we would be more content if we produced only for ourselves but now to meet our individual needs we need to produce for others? That we can only freely produce for ourselves once we've met our own personal needs which means to meet other's needs first?
He then talks about how the product of labour provides satisfaction to another meaning man is the applicator of the alienifcation. That in indulging in the product of labour you are also doing that to another worker and this is capitalism.
How is estranged labour the cause of private property? The fact that the labour's product is property (building)?
Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 reviews