# what does a world without alienation look like? If we go strictly by [[Marx’s view]], a world without [[alienation]] might look like one where a person: - has control over their own labor and the product of their own labor - is not isolated, belongs to a community - can use their creative powers as they see fit - _feels_ that they belong to a community, and that they owe it to their community to work - think: in the same way pre-industrial societies did