ABSTRACT
The text analyzes the common sense about the concept of alienation and how it is intentionally related to youth. When discussing the concept of alienation through the lens of Marxism, the text reveals how late stage capitalism complexifies, deepens and reproduces alienation as a way of intensifying labor exploitation. Marx understands four dimensions of alienation in capitalism. The worker is alienated from the object produced by their labor; the set of knowledge comprehended by the different steps of the work process; their most basic characteristic as human beings, that is, creativity in the transformation of nature; alienation from the other human beings and nature. It is thus argued that neoliberal school with standardized and impoverished curriculum performs the function of reproducing alienation aiming at intensifying exploitation of youth labor in an increasingly unstable and precarious labor market.
