Comparing Marx And Marx's Division Of Labor

Work amounts to a life purpose for human beings. Throughout capitalism’s division of labour, workers become estranged from their self identity and individual life purposes. The system ultimately takes away their species-being, their human nature. Species-being refers to one’s mental, emotional, or “physical products of nature, whether they appear in the form of food, heating, clothes, a dwelling, or whatever it may be”(Marx, pg. 443) which are necessary for his survival. On the other hand, Marx shows how the capitalist class creates an artificial idea of society which includes customs, philosophies, or even cell phones that prop up the artificial nature of the estranged workers’ lives. Marx shows the capitalist class is able to exploit the labourers by creating this artificial environment and bourgeois dominated society,
Since the entire mode of production is focused around factory labour, the bourgeoisie is able to create this artificial work environment and have complete control over the labourers and what they produce. The industrialists know the labourers need food and shelter, and to secure these needs, must work in factories. So, industrialists control those basic needs by maximizing relative surplus value while minimizing pay. When given the option of working for the bare minimum, or not working at all, people choose to work, ultimately alienating themselves from their species-being, their natural environment. Capitalism is defiling the civil society. Instead of protecting the laborers and their rights in exchange for their contribution to civil society, there is wage slavery and the proletariat is taken advantage of rather than benefitted as members of the civil society. The workers aren't getting anything out of society; instead, they are physically and spiritually