Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-68ccn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-10T14:25:54.635Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Chinese View of ‘Alienation‘

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Donald J. Munro
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Readers may be interested in the status of the concept of “alienation” and of Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (where the topic is most extensively discussed) in mainstream Chinese Marxism. The topic is important, among other reasons, because it has figured so prominently in “revisionist” philosophical writings of the problem of freedom in societies where the bureaucracy becomes a new class. The points I am about to make are based both on my own research and on talks with philosophers in the People's Republic in 1973.

Type
Research Notes
Information
The China Quarterly , Volume 59 , September 1974 , pp. 580 - 582
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1974

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. A good English translation is Bottomore, T. B., Karl Marx: Early Writings (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964)Google Scholar.

2. Yang, Chou, The Fighting Task Confronting Workers in Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1963), pp. 38–39Google Scholar.

3. Fromm, Erich, Marx's Concept of Man (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1963), p. 44Google Scholar.

4. These remarks stand as a correction to my review of Hsiung's, James C.Ideology and Practice(The China Quarterly, No. 50 (1972), pp. 351–54Google Scholar), where I stated that the manuscripts have never been translated into Chinese. However the general thrust of my remarks about “alienation” remains unaltered.