Marx's theory of alienation provides insight into how the working class and average worker do not see themselves in their work. The product they produce is not for them and they don't own it, so they feel alienated. They feel alienated from the product they are making, from the work itself, alienated from themselves and other workers. Alienation in the contemporary context still occurs today, for example, both with sweatshop workers in third world countries and with office workers in Western countries. Marx's solution to capitalism and its result of alienation was communism. Marx theorized that if the consequence of capitalism was alienation as well as private property, these could be positively eradicated through the method of capitalism.