THE ROLE OF MARXIAN ALIENATION THEORY IN MARX’S RELATIONAL-DYNAMIC PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL BEING
THE ROLE OF MARXIAN ALIENATION THEORY IN MARX’S RELATIONAL-DYNAMIC PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL BEING

Summary/Abstract: I have chosen to approach the Marxian alienation theory from a historical angle andrecount its evolution in Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and theGrundrisse (Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy), wherein it develops intoa theory regulating the co-creation of conditions for “freedom” in the choice of processes that lead to de-alienation. I will attempt to present the alienation theory as an aspectof a broader anti-metaphysical critique of all substantialism, According to Marx, thesubstantialist approach to history could at most only pretend to be dynamic and ignoredthe structural complexity of being, whereas the true idea was to notice and keep track ofthe structural and qualitative changes brought to being by the genetic, structural, social,economic, class and institutional conditionings of human history.My main focus is on the historical evolution and structure of the dialectical elementin the processes that change human life according to Marx, who denied matter any rationallyjustified existence outside the human sphere. Marx, who stood under the influenceof Kant, Hegel and British political economy, criticised primitive metaphysicalmaterialism.The onset of capitalism also brought the gradual demise of man’s fascination withnature, because capitalism gradually turned it entirely into a practical and theoreticaltool, something of utility to humans.

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