1.

A common conception of capitalism is an economic system where private sectors own and
control property according to their interests and where supply and demand freely determine
market prices to best benefit society. The desire to turn a profit is capitalism's fundamental
characteristic. Capitalism was denounced by Marx as a system that separates the masses. The
market forces, not the labor force, control things, even though employees produce things for
the market. People must perform labor for capitalists who exercise complete control over the
means of production and who hold sway in the workplace.

2. Alienation is the objective structure of experience and activity in a capitalist society. Capitalist
society cannot exist without it. Capitalist society, in its very essence, requires that people be
placed into such a structure and, even better, that they come to believe and accept that it is
natural and just. Karl Marx's theory of exploitation is by far the most influential one that has
ever been put forth. According to Marx, workers in a capitalist society are exploited to the
extent that they are compelled to offer their labor power to capitalists for much less than the
full value of the goods they produce with their labor. Marx contends that under capitalism,
laborers lose their essential human rights because they are alienated from them in four ways: as
the result of their labor, as workers, as members of a species, and in their interactions with one
another.

3. According to Marx, under capitalism "private property has already been destroyed for nine-
tenths of the population"; in other words, the working class won't be able to develop as long as
the economy is managed by a small group of affluent people in their own interests.