A Comparative Study Of Marx’s Labor Alienation And Hess’s Economic Alienation

Hess was the first person to introduce Feuerbach’s theory of religious alienation into the field of economics,and his economic alienation thought influenced the development of Marx’s thought in a certain sense.Marx’s theory of labor alienation has certain connection with Hess’s idea of economic alienation,but it also has a fundamental difference.From the theoretical origins and the formation process,Marx and Hess are also members of the young Hegelian factions,which are influenced by the thought of religious criticism represented by Powell and Feuerbach,and have experienced in the process of alienation from the Criticism of Religious Criticism to Political Economy.The difference is that Marx’s influence in the process of its formation is also from the influence of Engels thought,Hess is also affected by the French socialism.From the specific content,the analysis of the alienation of human nature is a common prerequisite for the alienation of the two,but there are differences in the analysis of alienated objects,manifestations,root causes and ways of overcoming.Hess to money as the starting point,based on the nature of the class and the reality of the nature of the problem of alienation,the modern small business people in the world of social interaction activities carried out a specific analysis,criticized the Christian society prevailed egoism The Marxist view of labor as the entry point of its theory of alienation,through the confirmation of the nature of human labor,anger of the non-human nature of the production of capitalism,advocated the elimination of private ownership through the communist revolution,abandon alienation.Hess’s idea of economic alienation expands the fundamental view of the Feuerbach people,and the application of alienation to the economic field has had a significant impact on Marx,but Hess’s economic alienation is limited to alienation in the field of exchange,Marx’s grasp of the nature of human labor,the Hess only from the analysis of the relationship between the alienation of the problem extended to the production relations,breaking Hess,the author of the world,which can not really explain the essence of capitalism,the reality of its certain limitations;Economic criticism of the religious criticism and the old philosophy of the humanist position,not only for the creation of historical materialism to lay the foundation,but also transcendently developed the philosophy of communism of Hess,proposed by the communist revolutionary practice to eliminate private ownership,to achieve the return of human nature.