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ALIENATION FOR LOST MARXISTS
HELL FOR ALL THE REST
By: SARTRE
Economic determination is essentially based upon a flawed notion of human nature. After decades of rehashing the major themes of Marxism, we are left with a void in anthropological insight, mutations in evolutionary dogma and social futility in oppressive governmental regimentation. The confined alignment of existence that Karl Marx assigns to man, requires that God becomes a fatality of an economic order of contrived conflict, that only the commissar can correct.
When Marx proffers four kinds of human alienation or estrangement: (1) from our product, (2) from our productive activity, (3) from our species being and (4) from other human beings; we are supposed to accept that the central feature of human life, is our productive activity. According to Marc Stier on Marx: "We do not think of productive activity as something enjoyable or as a means by which we transform our own way of life. Rather we think of it as a......

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