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MARX'S THEORY OF ALIENATION: A CRITERION FOR HISTORICAL EVALUATION AND A TOOL FOR CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY

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1977
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With the discovery of Marx's Theory of Alienation (1932), it has become necessary to revise much of what passes for Marxism. Questions over the unity of the theory and practice of socialist parties must be raised. No longer able to claim that 'alienation' is peculiar to capitalism, socialist parties have had to re-establish both their objectives and methods of organization. Marx's critique of capitalism on the basis of alienated relations is also valid when applied to the state controlled economies of socialist systems. Thus by interpreting Marx's mature works (namely Capital) in the light of his philosophical synthesis of subject-object internal relations, this paper presents some of the theoretical and political implications of Marx's theory for socialist movements.
Title: MARX'S THEORY OF ALIENATION: A CRITERION FOR HISTORICAL EVALUATION AND A TOOL FOR CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY.
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Name(s): HYATT, MARIA EUGENIA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Derfler, Leslie, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 84 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: With the discovery of Marx's Theory of Alienation (1932), it has become necessary to revise much of what passes for Marxism. Questions over the unity of the theory and practice of socialist parties must be raised. No longer able to claim that 'alienation' is peculiar to capitalism, socialist parties have had to re-establish both their objectives and methods of organization. Marx's critique of capitalism on the basis of alienated relations is also valid when applied to the state controlled economies of socialist systems. Thus by interpreting Marx's mature works (namely Capital) in the light of his philosophical synthesis of subject-object internal relations, this paper presents some of the theoretical and political implications of Marx's theory for socialist movements.
Identifier: 13845 (digitool), FADT13845 (IID), fau:10673 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Subject(s): Alienation (Social psychology)
Communism and society
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