His sculptures examine how the body is so often objectified and repurposed for someone else’s convenience or utility.

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

And it is Karl Marx, whose theory is the most powerful tool for unveiling the unsocial and anti-social character of corporate ‘social’ media and digital capitalism.

Karl Marx’s theory of alienation reveals how human activity creates society and how we have the potential to create a different future. Marx identified four specific ways in which alienation ...

This was the fundamental insight of Marx’s theory of labor and alienation: that a social system had been erected to coercively extract something from people that had previously, in a deep sense ...

Marxism is an economic and political theory that examines the flaws inherent in capitalism. It’s primarily based on the work of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx.

Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism is clear—but is his analysis outdated?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

A Lover’s Theory of Marxism In Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the ...

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