Comparative Study Of Marx And Marcuse About Alienation Theory

Marx's alienation theory is a theory system rather than the development of the theory of isolated points, since its inception has become a hot academic research, and the subsequent sociologists, philosophers had a profound impact.Among them, in order to the Frankfurt school of western Marxist philosophy schools in this research. Marcuse as the representative figure of Frankfurt school later, on the basis of positive absorption of Marx's labor theory of alienation, the development of their own brand new concept of alienation, alienation of science and technology.Both Marx's labor theory of alienation and Marcuse's theory of alienation of science and technology, both for our profound analysis of the current situation of the alienation of capitalism society and living predicament of human.As the correctness of the theoretical system there is no absolute, of course, also there is no absolute truth, the crystallization of the era of alienation theory as the essence with the transcendence and rationality, but there are limitations.For Marx, the development of the theory is that its has been sticking to the principles, through constant reflection, continually to overthrow their own theoretical system, Marx established the alienation theory was later proved to be scientific theory system, Marcuse of Marx's theory of interpretation of this inheritance.For Marcuse, his theory of alienation is based on all the new development of capitalist society, the alienation from economic field into the ideological field, Marcuse thinks that the progress of science and technology is to blame for all this.Therefore, put forward the slogan of "refused to", request refused to all industrial civilization achievements of capitalist society.It is not difficult to see, Marcuse's theory of alienation from Marx's alienation line of argument, he put the theory argument point focus on culture, the thinking logic of these abstract ideology, inevitably leads to the theory of abstract and fantasy, and for the final solutions, the status quo of the complete alienation he can only resort to the class, art and aesthetics, this once again proved that his wishful thinking.