Therefore,thegreaterthisproduct,thelessishehimself.Theexternalization[Entausserung]oftheworkerinhisproductmeansnotonlythathislaborbecomesanobject,anexternalexistence,butthatitexistsoutsidehim,independentlyofhimandalientohim,andbeingstoconfronthimasanautonomouspower;thatthelifewhichhehasbestowedontheobjectconfrontshimashostileandalien.
Letusnottakeacloserlookatobjectification,attheproductionoftheworker,andtheestrangement,thelossoftheobjet,ofhisproduct,thatthisentails.
Theworkerscancreatenothingwithoutnature,withoutthesensuousexternalworld.Itisthematerialinwhichhislaborrealizesitself,inwhichitisactiveandfromwhich,andbymeansofwhich,itproduces.
Butjustasnatureprovideslaborwiththemeansoflife,inthesenseoflaborcannotlivewithoutobjectsonwhichtoexerciseitself,soalsoitprovidesthemeansoflifeinthenarrowersense,namelythemeansofphysicalsubsistenceoftheworker.
Themoretheworkerappropriatestheexternalworld,sensuousnature,throughhislabor,themorehedepriveshimselfofthemeansoflifeintworespects:firstly,thesensuousexternalworldbecomeslessandlessanobjectbelongingtohislabor,ameansoflifeofhislabor;