Theory of Alienation

In his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1832), Marx determined four aspects to alienated labor. Firstly, "the worker was related to the product of his labor as to an alien object; it stood over and above him, opposed to him as an independent power." Secondly, because he was thus alienated from his product - which can be seen as the objectification of himself - he is alienated from himself during the act of production, viewing work as outside of himself, as outside of his real life. He is no longer at home in it. Then, the essence of man being that of a social being, work takes from him his "species-life" by not reflecting him as a "species-being." Lastly, the conditions of work also alienate the worker from other men. This is accomplished in several ways. Co-workers are viewed as the man views himself - as no more than a commodity which produces objects foreign to their creator. He is

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onscious return of man himself as a social, i.e., human being." In a flare of poetic prose, Marx claimed of Communism: It is the genuine solution of the antagonism be- tween man and nature and between man and man. It is the true solution of the struggle between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution to the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution. The unification of man into society accomplished by Communism is an ideal proclaimed loudly by Marx. Beginning with his language, man is social in all aspects. His relationship to nature is also social. Communism realizes this trait. Essential to the abandonment of alienation is the development of the five senses. The emphasis of development should be the "all-sided" man. The having encouraged by the principle of private property which is a form of alienation must be discouraged. Science must join into one field, including the sciences of man and nature, reflecting the reciprocal relationship between the two. Marx had noted the tendency of the worker to turn to religion as a solace for the feelings of alienation. But rel
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