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 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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism is clear—but is his analysis outdated?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

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