Texts Selling is the practice of externalization. As long as man is imprisoned withinreligion, he only knows how to objectify his essence by making it into an alien,imaginarybeing. Similarly, under the domination of egoistic need he can onlybecome practical, only create practical objects by putting his products andhis activity under the domination of an alien entity and lending them thesignificanceof an alien entity—money.(p. 69) What this fact expresses is merely this: the object that labour produces, itsproduct, confronts it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer.The product of labour is labour that has solidified itself into an object, madeitself into a thing, the objectification of labour. The realization of labour is itsobjectification. In political economy this realization of labour appears as a lossof reality for the worker, objectification as a loss of the object or slavery to it,and appropriation as alienation, as externalization..... All these consequences follow from the fact that the worker relates to theproduct of his labour as to an alien object. For it is evident from this presuppositionthat the more the worker externalizes himself in his work, the morepowerful becomes the alien, objective world that he creates opposite himself,the poorer he becomes himself in his inner life and the less he can call his own.It is just the same in religion. The more man puts into God, the less he retains inhimself. The worker puts his life into the object and this means that it no longerbelongs to him but to the object. So the greater this activity, the more theworker is without an object. What the product of his labour is, that he is not.So the greater this product the less he is himself. The externalization of theworker in his product implies not only that his labour becomes an object, anexterior existence but also that it exists outside him, independent and alien,andbecomes a self-sufficient power opposite him, that the life that he has lent to theobject affronts him, hostile and alien.(pp. 86-87)