“Marx believed that, through labor, humankind would be able to realize it’s “species-being” i.e., it’s potential for creative and purposeful activity though work” (Farganis 24). “it was Marx’s objectives to recount the condition of human development under capitalism and logically to project the dynamic changes that would ensure, bringing people to a fuller realization of their free and creative potentialities” (Fargains 23). “the economic base of society, its substructure, was seen to influence, if not determine the super structure, i.e., the ideas values, laws, and social and political institutions” (Farganis 25). “ the class that controls the means of production is also the dominant political and ideological forve in society” ( Farganis 25). Manifesto of the communist party, Marx and Engels “The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored, and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into paid wage-laborers” (Marx and Engels 27). “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx and Engels 26). Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other- bourgeoisie and proletariat” (Marx and Engels 26). Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx “the alienation of the worker in his product means not only that his labour becomes an object, an external existence, but that it exists outside him, independently, as something alien to him, and that it becomes a power on its own confronting him; it means that the life which he has conferred on the object confront him as something hostile and alien” (Marx 39). “thus through estranged labor man not only engenders his relationship to the object and to the act of production as to powers that are alien and hostile to him” (Marx 43). “ private_ property_ thus results by analysis from the...