The idea of ‘alienation’ by Karl Marx is one of the most widely discussed concepts in social, political and economic theory. It is an idea that a young Marx developed out of his study of Friedrich ...

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 ...

There is no author summary for this book yet. Authors can add summaries to their books on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. This chapter examines in detail the two ...

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 ...

School of Marxism, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China. There is always some kind of change in people’s minds over time. Because of the creation of historical materialism and ...