THE TERM "alienation" in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness, of being alone and apart from others. For Marx, alienation was not a feeling or a mental condition, but an economic and ...

Marx’s theory of alienation delineates how workers become estranged from the products of their labour, the labour process, their own human potential and from one another under capitalist modes of ...

The idea of ‘alienation’ by Karl Marx is one of the most widely discussed concepts in social, political and economic theory. It is an idea that a young Marx developed out of his study of Friedrich ...

Source: Adobe stock image by wayhome-studio, licensed and modified by Ravi Chandra Challenging relationships are, by definition, ambivalent. Not infrequently, they are ambivalent to the point of being ...

After 100 some days of the Trump presidency, the Republican Party and the conservative coalition, broadly understood, are still in flux. Was this election a Pyrrhic victory? Is that even the right ...

This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...

A Palestinian protester wears a mask painted in the colours of the national flag in Gaza on 22 February (AFP) The current world offers countless examples of alienation, but this phenomenon is perhaps ...

After two days of this incident, the man’s wife ran away from their home, and so far there is not any clue about her. In today’s world, neighbors are alienated from each other in the mega cities and ...