Marx's Theory of Alienation - Richard Wolff on Economic Update

We'll have a new episode of Economic Update for you next week. In the meantime, take a look back to earlier this year, when he summarizes Marx's Theory of Alienation.

"What you've produced is taken from you. It's alienated from you. And someone else who didn't work with you to produce it will decide what happens to it: where it goes, to whom it goes, for what purpose it is used. That's none of your affair... And that is painful, and that is psychologically stressful, and it's one of the ways that the capitalist system (Marx argues) affects your psychology through this struggle."  

This is a clip from Economic Update: Economic Update: Marxism's Ongoing Relevance
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