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Critically examine Karl Marx’s theory of alienation.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Sociological Thinkers

Karl Marx took alienation (Entfremdung) from G. W. F. Hegel's estrangement of spirit and Ludwig Feuerbach's religion as humanity's essence projected outward, and relocated it in production. In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) it is an objective relation, not a mood: the worker's own activity returns as a power standing over him. It is…

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