Marx's theory of alienation posits, in the crudest terms, that man is alienated from the product, the production process, his fellow man, and ultimately himself.

Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory By Dan Swain Bookmarks, 2012 The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every ...

Marx’s theory of alienation remains relevant as AI reshapes the modern workplace experience. Automation can strip workers of control, creativity, and connection, increasing emotional detachment; ...

Ever since German philosopher Hegel discussed alienation and Karl Marx converted it into the sensible framework of the economics of capitalism, alienation isn’t really a new subject – many ...

Marx developed his theory of alienation in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, and The German Ideology.It’s distilled into three points: Human beings are independent only if they are ...

Alienation and Anarchism . Nevertheless, Marxist influence is still potent, ... Indeed, Marx’s theory of man-as-economic-animal is regularly disproved by countless eruptions of nationalism, ...

World Review of Political Economy, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 2024), pp. 530-565 (36 pages) Using the philosophies of Louis Althusser and István Mészáros, this article seeks to interpret Marx’s theory of ...

B y some measures, Karl Marx (1818–83) is the most important of the modern philosophers, in the sense that it is impossible to understand the history of the 20th century without reference to his ...

Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism is clear—but is his analysis outdated? In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., ...