The idea of ‘alienation’ by Karl Marx is one of the most widely discussed concepts in social, political and economic theory. It is an idea that a young Marx developed out of his study of Friedrich ...

Various studies and scholastic arguments have now established the link between modern education and alienation. These studies range across disciplines like psychology, sociology, and political science ...

Chepal Sherpa (chepal10@gmail.com) is a research scholar at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This paper tried to locate the debate on man-nature relation in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The political theorist wrote with the intention of changing the world (Getty) By some measures, Karl Marx (1818–83) is the most ...

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...

The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every person on the planet. Yet, billions suffer deprivation and are denied basic ...

Karl Marx continues to be debated for his critique of capitalism. One of his important critiques, alongside that of growing inequalities under capitalism, was of the growing sense of alienation. His ...

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on ethics and the economy. Honest, hard-working people should be able to earn enough money to live decent lives. There is something corrupt about wealth that is ...

The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...