Alienated labor is not an expression of the worker's esse... — Carmelics

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Alienated labor is not an expression of the worker's essential being but a denial of it.

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1.Labor under alienated conditions is external to the worker and does not belong to the worker's essential being.
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2.In alienated labor, the worker denies rather than affirms the self.
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3.In alienated labor, the worker feels unhappy rather than content.
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1.Hegel's account of labor shows that externalization (Entäußerung) is a necessary condition for self-realization, not its negation.
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2.The worker's essential being is not pre-given but constituted through objective productive activity, including its alienated forms.
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3.Marx's appeal to a fixed 'species-being' smuggles in an essentialist human nature that his own materialist method cannot justify.
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