Marx's theory of alienation
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Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement of people from aspects of their essential human nature as a consequence of living in a society structured by private property and wage labour. De
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Depiction of the young Karl Marx
Page from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The Ford Motor Company assembly line in 1913, an example of the capitalist division of labour that intensifies alienation. Workers perform repetitive, fragmented tasks, losing control over the production process and the final product.
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, also known as the Paris Manuscripts or as the 1844 Manuscripts, are a series of unfinished notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx. T
Marx's theory of alienation
…of living in a society structured by private property and wage labour. Developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and first articulated in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the theory is a foundational concept of Marxism. At its core, it posits that under the capitalist mode of production, workers are inevitably separated…
1964 International Publishers edition, edited with an introduction by Dirk J. Struik