On this account, objectification under capitalist relations necessarily generates alienation, making the two concepts extensionally equivalent within the relevant social conditions.

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Alienation(the key concept being debated): A state where workers feel disconnected or separated from the things they make, their own labor, or themselves—often because they have no control over what they create.
Capitalist relations(political and economic philosophy): The system where businesses and individuals own things and trade them for profit, with money and markets controlling most economic activity.
Generates(as used in philosophical reasoning): Creates or produces as a result or consequence.
Objectification(as the main concept being explained): Treating a person as if they were a thing or object, rather than as a human being with their own thoughts and feelings.
Social conditions(as used to explain external factors that shape what people are able to do): The circumstances created by how society is organized—things like laws, norms, opportunities, or barriers that affect what people can do.
extensionally equivalent(Applied to Church's thesis and Turing's thesis regarding functions of positive integers): Two theses are extensionally equivalent when they are about one and the same class of functions

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