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Digital Document
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Florida Atlantic University
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With the discovery of Marx's Theory of Alienation (1932), it
has become necessary to revise much of what passes for Marxism.
Questions over the unity of the theory and practice of socialist
parties must be raised. No longer able to claim that 'alienation'
is peculiar to capitalism, socialist parties have had to re-establish
both their objectives and methods of organization. Marx's critique
of capitalism on the basis of alienated relations is also valid when
applied to the state controlled economies of socialist systems.
Thus by interpreting Marx's mature works (namely Capital) in the
light of his philosophical synthesis of subject-object internal
relations, this paper presents some of the theoretical and political
implications of Marx's theory for socialist movements.
has become necessary to revise much of what passes for Marxism.
Questions over the unity of the theory and practice of socialist
parties must be raised. No longer able to claim that 'alienation'
is peculiar to capitalism, socialist parties have had to re-establish
both their objectives and methods of organization. Marx's critique
of capitalism on the basis of alienated relations is also valid when
applied to the state controlled economies of socialist systems.
Thus by interpreting Marx's mature works (namely Capital) in the
light of his philosophical synthesis of subject-object internal
relations, this paper presents some of the theoretical and political
implications of Marx's theory for socialist movements.
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