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Why do Marxists use the terms fetish(ism), reification, alienation and what do they mean?
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TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
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Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE answer to the first question is — because they sum up what are sometimes difficult concepts to understand or explain — which (in answer to the second question) is what we’re going to try to do now.
Let’s start with alienation. Alienation is the way that humans are distanced and estranged from what should be (and sometimes once was) theirs — their work, their skills, their time, their humanity, themselves, often through its appropriation by others.
The concept appears first in Marx’s early writings, in particular his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (which were unpublished in his lifetime).
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