Marx’s Interpretation and Positive Subsumption of Alienated Labor and Private Property: Based on the Text of the “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”

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Alienated labor; Private property; Connotation; Positive negation

Abstract

The theory of alienated labor is a key idea in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Building upon the “alienation” theories of Hegel and Feuerbach, Marx further developed the concept of “alienated labor,” which in turn generates private property, shaping and being shaped by capitalist production relations. In the context of alienation and private property, the worker is in a state of enslavement, while the capitalist becomes the personification of capital, and human essence becomes alienated. To achieve the return to human essence, it is necessary to affirm the negation of the negation of alienation and private property, which Marx refers to as the abolition of alienation and the “positive negation” of private property, ultimately leading to the establishment of communism and the liberation of humanity.

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