The Byproduct of a Capitalist Economy: Exploitation of the Worker

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In establishing that labor is external to the worker, which the product of his labor is not his but someone else's, Marx asserts the laborer is in a foreign environment (74). Being in such an unnatural state the laborer "mortifies his body and ruins his mind" (74)...
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That labor is now the means to an end, the natural state of eating, drinking, and procreating, and Marx likens the worker to an animal, having endured "the loss of his self" (74). Notwithstanding the psychological impact a capitalist mode of production can have on the laborer, a physiological strain is apparent to Marx as well...
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