Analysis of the Connotation of Labor Concept in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Labor creates wealth and history.Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844,from the perspective of labor,explains the essence of proletarian labor under the capitalist system,which is a social imagination of the differentiation between workers and the products of labor,the process of labor,and the essence of human beings.Finally,it infers the conclusion of the differentiation between people under the capitalist system.This alienated labor became a tool for capitalists to enslave workers.Marx criticized the old concept of labor and grasped the inherent contradictions in the development of capitalist society by examining alienated labor.Marx believed in Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844 that labor under the capitalist system is an activity that loses its true human nature.To make labor a free and conscious activity of human beings,it is necessary to abandon private ownership and achieve communism.Analyzing and studying alienated labor is not only of great significance in guiding China's socialist modernization construction,but also provides guidance for achieving comprehensive human liberation.
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