Alienation Part 3

Did you know that Karl Marx considered alienation to be the biggest problem of capitalism? He believed that in a capitalist system, workers feel not only alienated from their work but also from the products they create. Let's see with the example of big vehicle-making companies like Tata, Ashok Leyland, and Mahindra. Their workers build motors, cars, and trucks, but they cannot afford to buy them. This is an irony. Workers use their full capacity and creativity to produce goods, but they have no rights over those products. When the product is sold, all the profit goes to the capitalists, while the workers receive only a small part of their labor's value.

The result? Workers do not find any meaning in their work, feel isolated from the production process, and feel like they are just a small part of a machine. This alienation negatively affects the mental and physical health of the workers. In modern society, this problem is not limited to workers alone but can also affect artists, writers, and even scientists.

To solve this problem, it is important that workers are given more participation in the production process and more autonomy and control over their work. However, this does not seem possible in capitalism. So, we need to think about whether we can create a system where workers get their true value and respect. Thank you."