ALIENATION OF THE WORKER

Marx held that an individual's labor interacts with his conscience; he also held that labor is also an individual's meaning as well as his conscience. Marc's view of capitalist society was that a worker helping his society (filled with capitalistic institutions called companies) with his labor gets wages and then uses his money to buy what he just helped make. In this scenario, the laborer is only getting out of his labor what the company or dominant institution wants him to get out of it, and this can lead to exploitation of the worker, especially when he has to pay for what he just helped make with the money he just earned making it. Thus, the worker's labor is unjustly taken from him, as is his conscience and meaning of life, and this alienation between the worker and his work is what leads to change.