Today’s working conditions can no longer be described in terms of Marx’s theory of alienation. Alienation from labour means that, for the workers, the product of their work is an alien object. They identify neither with their product nor their activity. The more wealth the workers produce, the poorer they become. Their products are snatched away from them. The workers’ activity causes their own derealization: ‘So much does labour’s realization appear as a loss of reality that the worker loses reality to the point of starving to death.’3
