Marcel Duchamp and his art have been discussed within the framework of art versus anti-art. What is problematic in this framework is that it is unable to illuminate the political aspect of Duchamp`s art in conjunction with the dominant social structure such as capitalism. This study, therefore, approaches Duchamp`s art, particularly, readymades, from a Marxist perspective and explicates its political potential. Here I would suggest that Duchamp`s readymades directly address the central contradictions of emerging bourgeois capitalism, that is, reification and consequent alienation of human labor. My conclusion is that Duchamp`s readymades provide a site in which human labor is restored in a symbolic way.