Marx’s Theory Of Alienated Labor And Its Practical Significance

The "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"(hereinafter referred to as the "manuscript")is an important work created by Marx in his youth that affected his entire life.This work contains a lot of content about Marx’s thought.Alienated labor theory is one of them.Alienated labor reveals the production relations of capitalist society.At the same time,it also organically runs through Marx’s three major contents: philosophy,political economics and scientific socialism.Marx believes that the production of alienated labor has certain inevitability.With the progress of society,this alienation will eventually disappear in the dust of history.This article mainly adopts the method of literature research,a unified method of theory and practice,analyzes,researches and innovates the existing research results.It also analyzes and researches the books and documents related to Marx’s theory of alienated labor.On this basis,the core part of the article is formed.The first part starts with the origin of alienation,combs Hobbes and Rousseau’s concept of alienation,and then summarizes the concept of alienation.The alienation theory does not come from Marx,but he criticized the irrational part of previous alienation theory,inherits the rational kernel in previous alienation theory and forms his own theoretical system.The second part is the main content of Marx’s theory of alienated labor,which is the focus of the article.This part discusses the relationship between the thought germination of alienated labor theory and the objectification and alienation of labor.It introduces the concept of alienated labor and further explains the concept of alienated labor,namely,the four manifestations of alienated labor.Marx believes that division of labor and private ownership are the root causes of alienated labor.To eliminate this alienation,it is necessary to realize communism.From the examination of the relevant content of the theory of alienated labor,we can see that the theory has laid a theoretical foundation for the development of Marx’s historical materialism,the theory of surplus value,and the scientific socialism system.The third part is the practical significance of Marx’s theory of alienated labor,which is the main innovation point of the article.This section deeply analyzes the practical significance of the theory of alienated labor from three dimensions.From the national perspective,we must insist that the dominant position of the publicly-owned economy will not be shaken,so as to avoid separation of materials and laborers;we must fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the people and share the fruits of socialist construction so as to avoid the separation of products and laborers.From the perspective of society,we should strengthen the social responsibility of employers to avoid the alienation of people and labor activities;we must build a harmonious labor relationship between laborers and employers in order to avoid the alienation of people and labor activities.From a personal perspective,we must give full play to the dominant position of people in the labor process in order to avoid alienation of human beings and their own essence;we must build a harmonious relationship between people to avoid alienation of man and man.