Central Ideas of Marxist Thought

Marx believed that capitalism causes alienation. This alienation is caused by the fact that capitalism as an inherently unjust system in which those who own the means of production exploit the proletariat -- meaning the people who must sell their labor in order to live. Some examples of this alienation would include migrant workers in the American west traveling from farm to farm throughout the year doing backbreaking labor for minimum wage or less and living in substandard housing provided by the land owner. Another example of this exploitation involves the lives of long haul truck drivers who are away from their families for days or weeks at a time, often sleeping in their trucks, barely earning enough to get by and being exempted from overtime pay requirements by the federal government's Fair Labor S

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