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My interpretation of it is as follows:

The division of humans into classes (which are relations to the means of production, which means you are in the working class if you don't own your workplace, in the capitalist class if you own places/machinery people work on) creates the division of labour (you do smaller tasks that are a tiny part of the production of the full product). The division of labour as well as the lack of ownership of what is produced (and lack of involvement in choosing what is produced) means that what you produce means nothing to you - you don't have any creative input into it. As humans are essentially a creative bunch, this is a very bad thing to happen.

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