In The Communist Manifesto,Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels charged that the capitalist system reduces workers to a mere "appendage of the machine," which leads to extreme
A)motion sickness.
B)alienation.
C)anomie.
D)goal displacement.

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Marx and Engels argued that capitalism alienates workers from the products they produce, from the process of production, from their own labor, from other workers, and from their own potential as human beings. This alienation results in workers feeling like they are mere cogs in a machine, reduced to a means of production rather than valued individuals. The concept of workers being reduced to an "appendage of the machine" is a metaphor for this idea of alienation.

In the Communist Manifesto,Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Charged That