Marx’s Theory Of Alienation And Its Historical Evolution In The West

Questions about who is Marx’s whole life in attention and explore topics,especially when the development of human society today, in the rapid development ofproductive forces and the rapid development of science and technology under thebackground of the era of big, followed by all sorts of serious social problems, such aspower corruption is rampant, the prevalence of money worship, loss of personalmorality, serious environmental damage, and so on, these let a person cannot ignorethe problems have to cause our reflection on the modernity, and the fundamentalcause of all this is alienation. Every era of scholars from different aspects and levelsto explore alienation, but really put the concept of alienation in scientific study onhistorical materialism, first when Marx.Marx attaches great importance to the life in the capitalism under the conditionof people’s living conditions, and finally noticed the dissimilation phenomenon,people he found living under a state of alienation of man’s life is, therefore, he tried todo our best to help people get rid of the alienation of way of life. In "economic andphilosophical manuscripts of1844", Marx formally proposed the theory of alienationlabor, and then put forward the concept of commodity fetishism in the "das kapital", itis not hard to see, Marx has never given up the alienation of exploration, but make ithard to deepen. Marx found by the concept of alienation criticism of capitalism, hisattention to all-round development of human freedom. On the discussion of Marx’stheory of alienation, however, still there are many differences, therefore, it isnecessary to comprehensively, systematically and history to study the theory, in orderto achieve the correct understanding of Marx’s theory of alienation.Remove the introduction and conclusion, this paper will be divided into fourparts. The first part: first, a brief overview of the theory of alienation form the socialbackground, the Renaissance of humanitarian advocates and people sad painfulcondition under the capitalist society of alienation theory the formation of the catalyst.Secondly, discussed the formation of alienation theory origin. Alienation theory isMarx’s critical inheriting predecessors’ theory, which formed on the basis of whether Hobbes, Rousseau’s political science in the sense of "alienation", Hegel’s absolutespirit about people alienated, or feuerbach argues that the essence of the dissimilationof ideas, for the formation of Marx’s alienation theory provides the cultivation of thesoil. The second part: combed the content of Marx’s alienation theory in detail. In thispart, not only involves the provisions of the Marx’s concept of alienation and thealienation labor theory has made the detailed description. Key lies in the fact thatexplicitly points out that the private ownership is the root cause of alienation, lookingforward to the communist hope to eliminate the dissimilation, this beautiful rely onthe main body of the vigorous strength of the proletariat. The third part: analyzed atdifferent time under the background of the western marxist inheritance and exert onMarx’s alienation theory, on the western marxists different understanding of Marx’salienation theory dialectically analyzed and evaluated. The fourth part: mainlyelaborated the value of Marx’s theory of alienation, Marx’s alienation theory researchon the current social phenomenon for us to provide the methodology of history andvalue. From a historical perspective, the present stage our country productive forcesdevelopment level is not high enough, the reality of the primary stage of socialism thedissimilation phenomenon exists generally, this is objective and inevitable, but at thesame time, this is temporary, with the realization of communism, the dissimilationphenomenon will disappear. From value perspective, the existence of the dissimilationphenomenon in our country has two edges, both the positive and the negative side, weshould insist on the guidance of Marx’s theory of alienation, in view of the current ourcountry exists alienation phenomenon, take appropriate and effective measures tominimize the negative effects of alienation, only in this way, to help the constructionof a harmonious society, can promote the overall development of human liberationand social progress.