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What does Marx mean by alienation? Do you find his account convincing?

To begin with I am going to take the definition of alienation from Microsoft's
Encarta (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary), to give a basic outline of alienation and then I
will discuss Marx's alienation and then later on in the investigation I will see how similar
Marx's application of "alienation" is.
Encarta defines alienation as, 1. estrangement: the process of causing somebody to
become unfriendly, unsympathetic, or hostile, or somebody's estrangement from or
unfriendly attitude toward somebody else 2. withdrawn state: a feeling of being isolated or
withdrawn, or of not belonging to or sharing in something.
This led me on to ask, what does Marx apply the term of alienation to? From that point
onwards in reading numerous passages of Marx I found that there are numerous ways
that alienation can be applied from an interpretative view to numerous accounts of Marx's
work. So barring the......

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