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 ...

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 ...

Chepal Sherpa ([email protected]) is a research scholar at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This paper tried to locate the debate on man-nature relation in ...

A new poll looks at the political values of the supporters of both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Photos from Donald J. Trump, Kamala Harris, Facebook Labor Day is a ...

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 ...

This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...

Karl Marx, the father of communism, who complained of excruciating boils, suffered from a "chronic skin disease" with psychological effects such as self-loathing and alienation that may well have ...