In Marx's capitalist reality, division of labor is a necessary condition for commodity production. This division attacks the individual/worker class at the very root of their life so that they are converted into 'a crippled being'. By the process in which they are crippled they experience acute alienation, which defines them forever. The alienation according to Marx has several dimensions. In the first, the worker is separated not only from the act of production, but also from the products of his labor. Next, because the workers activities belong to another, namely the capitalist, the worker translates this separation as a loss of his self. This means that the worker is separating himself from himself through the act of production. In the last form, the alienation takes the form of estrangement of one man to another man. One reason of this is the division of labor creates a hierarchical structure among the workers themselves and partly for the previous reason that the workers are the property of the capitalist and are seen as human capital. Nevertheless the non-worker, the capitalist, is also caught in his own web of alienation. But there is a difference between the two and how they interact by virtue of the property relationship of the worker to non-worker. The non-worker in theory does everything against the worker, which the worker does against himself; but he, the non-worker, does not do against himself what the worker does to himself. So, whereas

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