Marx's Analysis of Industrial Society

Marx uses the terms alienation and division of labor to describe what is wrong with modern industrial society. The proletariat, or labor, is in a position of irony. Workers know that without private property there is no production to be the means of. And if that is the case, then the proletariat has no role, function, or place in society, i.e., no claim to life itself. But at the same time, workers function as servants of capital to meet basic survival needs. Thus labor sinks further into oppression, toward slavery.

Because the structure of society is the agent of social ills, only destruction of society defined by capital and labor classes will suffice. Liberal reform does not go far enough:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few [i.e., capital concentration and accumulation] is solely due to its nonexistence in the hands of those nine-tenths (Marx, "M

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