Abstract: Marx believes that labor,as the essence of human being and a free and conscious activity, is alienated to be an unbearable slavery under the capitalist system.The “abstract labor subjectivity principle” of the capitalist productionhas led to the socialization of use value, put exchange value at the central position, transformed the fetishism from use value to exchange value, and made money fetishism deepen people’s madness about material. The emergence of the capitalist production has turned the society from excessive consumption to excessive production. Bourgeois economists regard non-productive class as the necessary part of capitalist production, and the extravagant life of non-productive class asnecessary means to eliminate excessive production, with contrast to the working class being deprived to make ends meet.Marx holds that the absurdity of capitalist production comes from the domination of capital over labor, that is, the domination of dead labor over living labor.

Key words: labor, capital, alienation, value