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Karl Marx’s Conception of Alienation

13 May 20152 April 2019 ~ 1000wordphilosophy ~ 11 Comments

The general idea of alienation is simple: Something is alienating when what is (or should be) familiar and connected comes to seem foreign or disconnected. So if work in a capitalist society inhibits the realization of our species-being, then work is to that extent alienating.

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