Alienation (Karl Marx)

Alienation (or "estrangement") means, for Marx, that man does not experience himself as the acting agent in his grasp of the world, but that the world (nature, others, and he himself) remain alien to him. They stand above and against him as objects, even though they may be objects of his own creation. Alienation is essentially experiencing the world and oneself passively, receptively, as the subject separated from the object.
-- Marx's Concept of Man. Erich Fromm 1961(marxists.org)
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* false species consciousness; cyborg alienation
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