In this essay I will examine Karl Marx's theory of alienation. First I will explain Karl Marx's views on human society, capitalism and how it leads to alienation. After explaining alienation I will talk about it in more depth, to do so I will mainly look at three main aspects of alienation. The first aspect is alienation from one's work. From here I will deal with the second aspect which is alienation from oneself. Finally I will deal with the third aspect; how workers were alienated from each other. Marx viewed humans as social beings; individuals had desires that could not be satisfied outside of society. Another important aspect in understanding Marx's point of view is the way he saw free individuality; for an individual the alienation from oneself is similar to the way one is alienated from one's job; as an individual loses freedom over their work, their work becomes meaningless to that individual's being. Furthermore, a worker has no control over what happens to the product he or she created. With this in mind, Marx's beliefs about productive activity must be considered; this is that “productive activity is often referred to as life itself. So it is more than a figure of speech when Marx says: 'The worker puts his life into the object.'" Consequently, his life is now part of that product that he has created, this then creates alienation because it becomes less if itself, and therefore the worker is alienated from Due to the nature of capitalism it creates competition; the better worker produces more capital, since in a capitalist society capital is what one must fight for from others because they all compete for the same thing. Because of this competition the worker also did not "... [see] his objective activity publicly recognized as enriching for the community, the worker competed with other [workers] to sell his labor power and, with it, its power of self-assertion." This meant that the worker became nothing more than that; a worker, his peers compete against him. Therefore, workers became isolated and alienated from each other. Starting from this, another aspect to consider is the capitalist class system; because classes create alienation in society, alienating a worker from his boss, or alienating a worker from a friend who rises to a different class. Since the worker creates products for his superior, it is nothing more than capital for him, therefore unlike the worker he does not work for capital. For this reason the superior does not suffer the same negative effects of the capitalist system as the worker, this leads to alienation in society. Because the life the capitalist leads is so alien to the worker, and the capitalist does not consider the worker equal. And so consequently, this creates