From the BBC’s History of Ideas, here’s an animated clip on Marx’s ideas about alienation that is well worth the two minutes it will take you to watch.
Alienation
That Alienation You Feel is Part of the System
Some things that we take for granted as “part of life” don’t necessarily have to be that way.
The Militant has an excerpt from The Marxist Theory of Alienation by Ernest Mandel and George Novack, explaining that alienation is not a natural eternal condition of humanity, but rather a product of social relations under capitalism.
Read the excerpt: The Militant – September 22, 2014 –Capitalist system dehumanizes and alienates workers.