Fundamentals of Marx: Alienation 

It was this concept of alienation that first really led me to Marxism. Was working as a dishwasher at the time and I was depressed and too tired to do anything creative all the time. Had back pain too and almost started smoking to deal with the stress. When I read the concept of alienation in the Manifesto, it spoke to me

What is the Marxist analysis of aliens

Nice breakdown on his chain of thought.

I get the feeling Enlightenment thinkers never actually interacted with animals, because animals don't just work tirelessly to sustain themselves. Pleasure is built into all living things and the natural outcome of pleasure is play, which is speculative in nature. That which is animal cannot be severed from that which is human without humanity's disavowal of its own self-consciousness. Self-consciousness arises through speculative play, as well as planned labour.

I’ve been looking forward to your next upload with so much anticipation! Fantastic video, as always. Keep it up comrades!

Awesome video! You made a great breakdown and I'm looking forward to anything else this channel may create!

This is an amazing video. Thank you so much for citing the place where you got the information as well.

Wonderful description, helped me a lot to understand this concept

Great video as always, I always look forward to a new upload! Who's the narrator?

This channel is incredible. Thank you!

this was explained really well!! I love this channel

Much better than the other videos on this topic.

Thanks, very nicely and easily put comrade

Very good explanation

Brilliant exposition

Excellent style and expression

Amazing video thanks!

Very good job!

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great great great job! thank you :)

Good analysis on not having to support humanism but still validating alienation

amazing

Just wondering, do you translate videos for Politsturm, the voices sound similar

2:35 Commodity Fetishism. Very interesting point.

I'm not a Marxist but this video really helped me with my Philosophy class, thank you!

What is the music playing in the background? I love it

If we define human essence as something beyond desires to survive, most of the extended arguments about alienation still holds. Right? irrespective of what that something is.

thank Marx for our great economy - from Vietnam

Is the point to change the world or to change our self

So, honest question; how would alienation function in voluntary Mutual Aid orgs? Wherein volunters have full control over what they design. The product is then given to another, sure, but mutual aid is supposed to function where both parties mutually benefit from the action. Is alienation nonexistent in such a place?

"My first impression was a very strong one," repeated the prince. "When they took me away from Russia, I remember I passed through many German towns and looked out of the windows, but I didn't trouble myself to ask questions about them. This was after a long series of fits. I would always fall into a sort of torpid condition after such a series, losing my memory almost entirely. Even though I wasn't entirely without reason during these times, I lacked the logical power of thought. This would continue for three or four days, and then I would recover myself again. I remember my melancholy was intolerable; I felt inclined to cry, sat and wondered uncomfortably. The consciousness that everything was strange weighed heavily upon me; I could understand that it was all foreign and unfamiliar. I recall waking up from this state for the first time in Basle one evening; the braying of alienation woke me up, alienation in the town market. I saw the alienation and was extremely pleased with it. From that moment on, my mind seemed to clear." "Alienation? How strange! Yet, it's not so strange. Anyone of us might fall in love with alienation! It happened in mythological times," said Madame Epanchin, casting a wrathful glance at her daughters, who had started to laugh. "Please continue, prince." "Since that evening, I've had a special fondness for alienations. I began to ask questions about them, as I had never seen one before. I immediately came to the conclusion that this must be one of the most useful animals-strong, willing, patient, and inexpensive. Thanks to this alienation, I started to appreciate the whole country I was traveling through, and my melancholy gradually faded away."

Thanks for posting this excellent video. Marx believed human being were free though not in conditions of their own making. His central point that you identify is that we humans create and build the social conditions that come to direct our lives. Fromm likens this to someone creating an idol from wood or stone and then bowing down to it and letting it control them. I believe in Capital vol 1 Marx likened this process to the magicians apprentice conjuring of a genie that he finds he can't control but which takes control of the apprentice. I believe that It's the basis for the contemporary refusal of science to view human beings as free with explanations of human activity in terms of neurological determinism, especially in the field of modern psychiatry. As for the question of Marx's view of essence, Marx in his thesis on Feuerbach argues that the the essence of humanity is its social sensual life activity, primarily in the production of it's means of production and reproduction. This according to Fromm is identical to Marx's earlier concept of humanities species being-though other Marxist writers deny this and claim that Marx broke with his earlier view of the 1844 Philosophical Manuscripts.

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If there is any essense these days, I feel it must have to do with power. It is natural for humans to wish to understand who has it, what it is and how to get it. To be let go, out of nowhere, from one's work marks an entry into an understanding of power; ergo how people who have it, wield it.

As far as I understood you argue that if we had stronger connection to goods, we would find more meaning in life. Can you prove that or do you have any other solution for the alienation problem?

Great how RU-vid only hosts these videos for purposes of entrapment.

I want to know the nationality of the person who voiced this video, I loved the accent and I'm curious. Please if anyone knows

What will be the change tends to happen with 'Alienation' in post capitalist society?

nice vid but that music kinda scared me

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Perhaps the Indigenous people of North America, South America, and Australia, as a few examples, might have something to offer to our Capitalist society. What it is to be human can be imagined and re- learned. We simply need to reconnect with what we already know to be true, and real.

This makes sense to those who workship mayerila .

In a fair world, Karl would’ve lived to see all the various attempts at implementing his ideas. He’d be such a great guest on The View.

What do you think about Stalin?

Man is happy in animal functions and sad in his human functions.(Marx)

Could anyone tell me, how could alienation be overthrown? (In detail)

Excellent video but half of the time the narrator sounds like they’re about to cry

thank you the marxist project...

Is not the notion of species being, or, more specifically, the presupposition that man ought to fulfill some intangible essence that is essential within himself, characteristic of idealism, which therefore undermines the materialistic paradigm central to Marxist thought?

china scholars said marx explained humanity in perfect materialism words/definitions... humanity is seen in marx book of knowledge in the material sense... seen... that the world may go round and blurred, humanity exist humanity will materialistically be seen at the crippling of capitalism...

Wouldn't define myself as marxist or even socialist but really loved this video. I hate my job, society and consumerism and feel so alienated from all this sh** around me. Always thought I was the stranger but maybe it's them...

Should marxists give money to the homeless? Just wondering

ah yes my favorite fictional philosopher

I don't think that alienation makes sense without thinking the human essence. Granted, essence must be interpreted; it is an open concept. The the reason that capitalism is unjust is precisely that it violates important features of our humanity. What Marx identified as human nature must be at least part of the story or his concept of alienation makes little sense.

How is Capitalism more alienating then slavery?

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This makes sense to those who worship material

I have to agree with the preceding comment. If the 'point is not to interpret the world but to change it' then you have stop explaining Marxism in terms that are incomprehensible to working people who are the only force capable of changing things. Indeed, you are yourselves guilty of 'alienating' people with such high-flown abstract explanations. In the modern context, the concept of alienation surely means the powerlessness of working people over the economic and political system. All the main decisions that affect our lives are taken by the wealthy and the powerful elites, a fact that is less and less affected by the vote and so-called elected governments. Nor is this alienation from power solved by public ownership and public services because the public sector model we have is a top-down bureaucratic one. Alienation can only begin to be overcome when all those affected by decisions are able to have decisive power over making them. That is why we need a genuine democratic socialist society based on real participation in all institutions of society.

The hat in Harry Potter the first movie. Picks where you belong

boring

what a boring guy Marx was

I disagree with the fact It a nation lie or man is silent for freedom liberty amen 🙏 Christ Jesus

This is why Andrew Yang's idea of implementing Human-Centered Capitalism proves that he is a fellow comrade!

I’m sure you mean well. But this complicated jargonistic gobbledegook does nothing to define alienation for the average joe or joanne who is trying to get some information about Marx in relation to socialism and its possible utility as an alternative system to the Capitalism which, joe and joanne realize, is killing them. Why not have enough respect for the ignorance (that is not a dirty word, it just means lack of knowledge) of the seeking, average man and woman to put out a video that is accessible and usable in imparting knowledge? Almost no one does this, and frankly you educated theoreticians preening your advanced but little-usable esoteric knowledge doesn’t do anything for anybody except maybe make you yourselves feel good. Change.