MARX'S CONCEPT OF ALIENATION

Marx's Concept of Alienation and Its Development



Marx's Concept of Alienation and Its Development

Introduction

Karl Marx is one of the influential and spectacular social philosopher of the 19th century, an undeniable founder of modern communal sciences. Whilst Karl Marx was considered as an obscure individual in his own era, his ideologies and ideas started to exert a great influence on the movements of workers after his death. This influence gained added impetus with the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian October Revolution in 1917, and few parts of the world remained significantly untouched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century.

A Crisis of Marxism and the Crisis of Philosophy The Marxist politician will prove that the camp' of the socialist countries is unshaken, that the Contradictions in this camp do not lead to antagonism, that its political stability, its economic and military power claims: that it has become even stronger and ushers a new situation, that the Communist Party continues to be a uniform line, a program presented objectively justified. The Marxist philosopher cannot be satisfied with ideological and polemical arguments, even not with an opinion in the political sphere. He regrets the politician, if he had, by s need to be imposed, it looks like lack of conscious sincerity, forced to the discomfort deny (where the denial of the evident intellectual can go to burlesque). As a philosopher he wants First light up the internal contradictions of socialism, of which the politicians too often in allusions and talk to them to cover up immediately (Hegel, 1956, pp.48).

There is a malaise; it is a mess, yes, and a crisis. At the beginning of this year, 1957 is the movement (the only one that actually exists and can exist in the modern world: the revolutionary Movement) in a stagnation. She is looking for a way in one direction. The masses as individuals to ask themselves, it is impossible to meet their expectations without a rigorous critical assessment of the historical period that is ending, without a careful analysis of the world situation at all.

Marx describes the alienation, born of a desperate existence of man and corresponds exactly to a historical situation in you can check the social tragedies and traumas intimate psychological causes. In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx describes the deformations of the man and his objectification, which is the loss of self in bondage to the products he created and others were appropriated. These descriptions, though shallow, remain valid in the society we live, but the alienation is now more subtle and complex to have been satisfied the necessities of life in certain. Alienation is not a sale that lost in the bustle of pure objectivity, nor should confuse with the alteration, which is a form of loss of self. Alienation appears in the contemporary society with a specific production in the living process of a social whole structured (Pappenheim, 1959, pp.87).

It is in the stage of absolute predominance of capital, when the split occur ...