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

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 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 ...

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 ...

The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every person on the planet. Yet, billions suffer deprivation and are denied basic ...

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 ...

LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.