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Marx’s concept of ‘alienation’ is an essential part of the reality in capitalism.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx described alienation (Entfremdung) as the estrangement of human beings from their own creative essence. The statement holds that this is no accident of bad employers but structural: wherever labour power is a commodity and the product belongs to another, alienation follows. Contemporary work largely confirms…

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  • Why It Is Built Into Capitalism
  • The Four Forms, Then and Now
  • The Indian Picture
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