Karl Marx, who was arguably one of the most influential philosophers and revolutionaries of his time, stated that the ‘alienation’ of man leads to man being viewed as nothing more than a commodity by society. Man, as he put it, was forced into labor and stripped of all human rights. He loses his identity and thus becomes alienated, even to the extent of being alienated to himself. Marx's theories were based on his socialist principals in which an alienated man is one of little value to society as a whole. In today's world, although an alienated man is not looked upon ....

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