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leads to economic crisis, unemployment, causes fears, battles
between bourgeoisie and proletariat

Capitalist Working Class
• Marx believed that capitalist society would give way to

socialism.

• Capitalist society marked by the process of Alienation

The economic exploitation and inhuman working conditions lead

to the increasing alienation of man.

• Marx identified 4 specific ways in which alienation has
spread through the capitalist society.

1) Humans are alienated from nature

2) Humans are alienated from each other: Capitalism

regards workers as objects of labour. Capitalism leads to

individualises. Relationships become more market
mediated.

Alienated from the fruits of its labour/ product of labour: because

whatever worker produces it is owned by capitalist.
3) Alienated from themselves: As the control of their lives are in

the hand of capitalist.

Marx’s conception of the economy was based on the notion of a

mode of production
• Primitive Communism , slavery , feudalism and capitalism

were all modes of production.
• At a more specific level consists of superstructure.

• It includes the production forces and production relations.

It refers to all the economic relationships and forms of labour

organisation which are involved in production.