Marx's theory of alienation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:45 1 Types of alienation
00:03:18 1.1 Alienation of the worker from their product
00:04:56 1.2 Alienation of the worker from the act of production
00:07:25 1.3 Alienation of the worker from their iGattungswesen/i (species-essence)
00:09:13 1.3.1 Relations of production
00:13:21 1.4 Alienation of the worker from other workers
00:14:34 2 Philosophical significance
00:14:43 2.1 Influences: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ludwig Feuerbach
00:16:24 2.1.1 iEntfremdung/i and the theory of history
00:17:34 2.1.2 iEntfremdung/i and social class
00:18:44 3 Criticism
00:19:23 4 See also



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Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their Gattungswesen ("species-essence") as a consequence of living in a society of stratified social classes. The alienation from the self is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social class, the condition of which estranges a person from their humanity.
The theoretical basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being, as an economic entity this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie—who own the means of production—in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus value in the course of business competition among industrialists.
In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1932), Karl Marx expressed the Entfremdung theory—of estrangement from the self.  Philosophically, the theory of Entfremdung relies upon The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach which states that the idea of a supernatural god has alienated the natural characteristics of the human being. Moreover, Max Stirner extended Feuerbach's analysis in The Ego and its Own (1845) that even the idea of "humanity" is an alienating concept for individuals to intellectually consider in its full philosophic implication. Marx and Friedrich Engels responded to these philosophic propositions in The German Ideology (1845).