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 ...

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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 ...

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...

An extract from Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts on the process of alienation of the worker from their work. ... We now have to grasp the essential connection between private ...

As provision of basic needs continues to atrophy, resistance increasingly takes an individualised, myopic form.