Marx's Alienation

Karl Marx, who was arguably one of the most influential philosophers and revolutionaries of his time, stated that the ‘alienation’ of man leads to man being viewed as nothing more than a commodity by society. Man, as he put it, was forced into labor and stripped of all human rights. He loses his identity and thus becomes alienated, even to the extent of being alienated to himself. Marx's theories were based on his socialist principals …

…exists today, I am reluctant to say that it is as strong as it was back then. I feel that our society has learned to appreciate its workers and give them identities instead of treating them as commodities. Nevertheless, other countries govern themselves differently and there’s no way we could all run businesses alike, but at least alienation has decreased since Marx’s time and hopefully it will decrease even more, in the future.