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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Marx’s great work is widely understood to center on a core revelation: ... for Marx, is the work of critical theory, ... or alienation.

Ad Policy Tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London, 1954. (Photo by English Heritage / Heritage Images / Getty Images) Ask any two Marxists to define Marxism, and you will likely get at ...

This awareness of alienation is what Heller, following Marx, calls a “radical need.” As Marx says, “only a revolution of radical needs can be a radical revolution.” ...

Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism is clear—but is his analysis outdated?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., ...