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Write short note: Alienation in developing societies.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844), alienation is the condition in which producers are separated from the means of production and from control over their labour. They become estranged from the product, the process, their species-essence and fellow humans. In developing societies it takes a distinctive form: it arrives through colonialism, uneven capitalism…

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  • Historical roots: colonial dispossession
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