For marx, there were two types of people in the world, those who own property, and those who did not. Essentially there is only the extremely high class, and the extremely low class. Because there were few limitations on things like wages or hours. The lower class workers (which made up the majority of the populations) put much of their life into making products which they would never see again. They did not own the fruits of their labor because they were working for someone else. For marx, this was the first alienating thing about society. The second means of alienation to the worker is the fact that the worker does not own the worked he or she does. They are again, working for someone else. They are simply doing their job in order to put food on the table and survive, and sometimes not even that. With this second form of alienation we can see that a worker will spend nearly all their time working to survive, instead of investing in hobbies or improvement of one's own intellect. This is why Marx views labor as …show more content…
While marx thought that communism would end alienation, it was in fact the thing which would create it. Many would also argue that capitalism was not alienation because many do not find high value in their work or ownership of their work. So it could be argued that Marx idea that people felt robbed of their humanity was completely off. Whatever the case was, communism has been shown to be a faulty system because there is not room for improvement or rising through the ranks, so to speak. When all are completely equal there is little motivation to improve oneself. But the most notable reason that communism does not work is because no mater what resources the worker would produce, they would be redistributed to others. What this meant was that if someone chose to be lazy and not contribute to society, they would still receive equal treatment in a communist society. This leads to those who work hard to cease doing so because there is no reward. So resources drop to an all time low. 3A) Jean Paul Sartre adopts the characterization of “existence precedes essence” because he was atheistic. Because he lacked a belief in God or some sort of higher power, he did not believe that morality truly existed. Therefor man was free to choose to do or become anything he wanted. That is why he believed in the idea that existence precedes essence, because no one was locked into a predetermined idea