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Marx's ideas regarding the alienation of the individual and how that relates to his concept
of objectification and his larger ideological constructs. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Such progression involved the development and solid establishment of concepts and processes in industrialization such as mass
production and central planning and the impact that had in terms of individual workers, their alienation from both their labor and one another and the eventual impact of such alienation
in the post-industrial world. As a man who had been raised in the middle class, Marx clearly understood the distinctions between the individual and group consciousness and saw the ways
in which they were directly related to the individuals awareness of self and what this means in terms of what and who a person believes he or she should be.
This then establishes what is correct and what is wrong in terms of both personal and group self-image. Alienation and the Self For Marx, the history of
mankind had a double aspect: It was a history of increasing control of man over nature at the same time as it was a history of the increasing alienation of
man. Alienation may be described as a condition in which men are dominated by forces of their own creation, which confront them as alien powers. The notion is central to
all of Marxs earliest philosophical writings and still informs his later work, although no longer as a philosophical issue but as a social phenomenon. According to Diggins (1996), Marx understood
the middle class as the "protagonist of history by virtue of having a higher consciousness of what history has wrought" (pp. 43). Certainly, one cannot forget that it was in
the middle class that reading and some measure of scholarship and intellectualism became available to the supposedly "common" man. Diggins quotes Marx as explaining that: "Liberation from the point of
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