Hegel v Marx Alienation

Alienation is described as the separation from or lack of identification with one's society or state. It can also be considered the act of being an outsider. Both Marx and Hegel expect that some people in society will naturally become outsiders, but it's what should be done with them that is interpreted differently between Hegel and Marx. Hegel thinks that if someone is alienated from their society then it's their responsibility to get 'back in line'. This mostly clearly represents Hegel's political philosophy in which he explains that the individual exists for the state. Marx on the other hand interprets alienation as the beginning to a historical revolutionary period that will eventually lead towards communism. In this respect, the idea of individualism, or what becomes of the people who are alienated, is both necessary and good. This is especially true in the presence of industrialization when the individual feels extremely alienated from his work. In the capitalist's economic shift of industrialism, those working in factories no longer are craftsmen but are just people doing a seemingly unimportant, small task like putting the left eye ball on a doll in a toy factory assembly line.

An example that shows how alienation is represented in our society is the relationship between teachers and students. As a student you must complete assignments that a teacher assign. This in turn creates master slave relationship as the students have little control over what the master (teacher) makes them do. Because most assignments are created by teachers, they lack the desires of the students thus pushing them into a forced labor in which the students do not receive fulfillment of there desires, or see themselves in there product. Forced labor is one of Marx's four forms of alienation. Also, because students compete against each other for grades (teachers never give every one the same grade) they are estranged from each other and no longer view other students as fellow humans or friends. Because they feel separated from each other through the different grades that they receive, they no longer identify as a group but instead are alienated. However, some students may resist this temptation to be alienated by forming a group made up solely of students that share the same negative opinion of the master. In forming a group the students mutually recognize each other as they share similar interests. The teacher or the master, does not receive mutual recognition since he or she is quite different from the students.
After forming groups, according to Marx, the student could  seize the power from the teachers through a revolution which in economic terms would be called communism. This revolution would both satisfy the students' desires to eliminate the teacher's power and create an equality of all students that would negate the previous feelings alienation. Ideally this would create a society in which students no longer were alienated.
Relating this revolutionary Marxist and Hegelian idea to students and teachers could help explain why some students don't try, or care about their performance in school.