The term "alienation" in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness--of being alone and apart from others. But for Karl Marx, alienation was an economic and social condition of capitalist ...

There can be no profitable prices under capitalism without the contradictory condition of alienation perpetuated by the ideal power of the superstructure. Althusser, L. 1962. “Contradiction and ...

The Marxism of the 1920s had discovered a problem with Marx’s dialectic of subject and object that underwrites the anticipated reversal of alienation. This dialectic was intended to unite the ...