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In this article, Marx discusses the alienation of workers due to a capitalistic system. He argues that workers have an aversion for work since they are alienated from the processes and products of their labor, from other workers, and from themselves. He also argues how the power of money “dehumanizes” people in a capitalistic society. Marx says that the more a worker applies himself in his work, the more his object which he creates becomes powerful, and the poorer the worker feels in his “inner life.” He makes a reference to God when he says, “The more of himself ma