HREQ 3010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: International Political Economy, Thorstein Veblen, Abercrombie & Fitch
8 May 2015
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Marx & alienation (marx"s concept of alienation): marx was a german philosopher, economist, sociologist, social scientist, historian, etc. who was born into a rabbinical jewish family in the 19th c. Definition: 1) alienation from the product of one"s own labour. Somebody else owns the fruit of their labour, therefore the worker is deprived from his own creation: 2) alienation from nature and its products. Being person comes second to being a worker: 3) alienation from the community and others. Money is the highest good & so its possessor is good money = universal whore. Kant & hegel are prime influences here. The influence of hegel is particularly important b/c it speaks of the importance of. History for hegel, can be seen as the conflict or ideas in a dialectical (resolving history conflict) context . Thinkers known as the young hegelians" were influential on marx, especially. Feuerbach understood religion in a humanistic sense: 2) french socialism:
