# Alienation and Human Flourishing

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Marx associated alienation with social relations in which workers lose control over their activity, its products, their relations with others, and the development of their capacities. He located this condition in class-divided production rather than in technology by itself.

The concept is most explicit in Marx’s early manuscripts, but scholars debate how its role changes in his later economic writings. It remains a way of connecting labor arrangements to constrained human flourishing.

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