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Alienation
This denotes the estrangement of individuals from themselves and others. ... Alienation occurs when, once objectified, man no longer recognizes himself in his product which has become alien to him, is no longer his own and stands opposed to him as an autonomous power.
Objectification, however, only becomes alienation in the specific historical circumstances of capitalism. ... This is the origin of alienation. Marx saw alienation both as a subjective state - as peoples feelings of alienation - and as a structural category which described the social and economic arrangements of capitalism.
Marx identified four particular manifestations of alienation. ... (3) The worker is alienated from his human nature or his species being, because the first two aspects of alienation deprive his productive activity of those specifically human qualities which distinguish it from the activity of animals and thus define human nature. ...
Capital itself is the source of further alienation within a developed capitalist economy. ...
Since Marx, alienation has lost much of its original sociological meaning and has been used to describe a wide variety of phenomena.
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