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Marx had a very precise meaning someone else can offer.
My interpretation of it is as follows:
The division of humans into classes (which are relations to the means of production, which means you are in the working class if you don't own your workplace, in the capitalist class if you own places/machinery people work on) creates the division of labour (you do smaller tasks that are a tiny part of the production of the full product). The division of labour as well as the lack of ownership of what is produced (and lack of involvement in choosing what is produced) means that what you produce means nothing to you - you don't have any creative input into it. As humans are essentially a creative bunch, this is a very bad thing to happen.
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Marx used the concept of alienation to describe the separation of workers from the products of their labor, the labor process itself, other workers, and their own human potential. He believed that in a capitalist society, workers were alienated from the value they produce, leading to feelings of powerlessness and lack of control over their lives.
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∙ 11y agoMarx's concept of alienation is that All aliens (extraterrestrial or other) exist to serve Vernon Superme.
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