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There are two types of people that come with Capitalism: the workers and those who exploit them. Marx realized that the bourgeoisie exploited the proletariat relentlessly for their own financial benefits. He recognized that the labor that was exerted by the working class to produce goods created great wealth for the capitalists. However, their hard labor was not being fairly compensated. The products created in factories were sold for more than the value of the labor itself, more than the workers' wages. For instance, "a factory worker may get paid £2 to produce a yard of cloth. The capitalist then sells the cloth for £5. In this way, the capitalist, who controls the process of production, makes a profit. But the worker does not benefit from this profit, and therefore fails to benefit from the fruits of his or her own labor" ("The British Library Board," n.d.). .
Marx believed that capitalism would self-destruct. The bourgeoisie's wealth was solely dependent on the labor from the working class, and without the working class or their labor, the bourgeoisie would be left with nothing. Therefore, capitalism required an existence of a lower class. This ownership and dependency of the working class was ultimately seen as a restriction of human freedom. However, Marx was convinced that once the proletariat started to realize that they were being taken advantage of by the upper-class, it would create great resentment, maybe even enough to start a revolution against the bourgeoisie. .
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Marx was a harsh critic towards capitalism because he believed that it was a "dictatorship of the proletariat" because the wealthy class manipulated the working class purely for their own profit. Marx's argument that the alienation of labor centers around the theory that capitalism switches an individual's labor from creation to exploitation. Labor through capitalism created four different types of alienation: alienation from the product, alienation from the activity of production, alienation from "species-being" or human identity and alienation from his fellow man.
