According to Karl Marx, in a capitalist economy, what type of alienation is a worker experiencing when the worker is forced to work for someone else and makes money for the owner of the workplace?

a. Alienating workers from their own productive work
b. Alienating workers from themselves
c. Alienating workers by denying them control
d. Alienating workers from the products of their labor


Answer: B

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