Conflict In Marxism

Quote: Dear Gor and the guests Greetings To follow our subject “alienation” concept, let me fist start with Jean Paul Sartre and his claim, before we come to other philosophers, especially Marx our important one in this discussion. Sartre is well known as an atheist philosopher and also a leading representative figure of existentialism philosophy. He believes in freedom and regards it our fate and destiny as human beings. Sartre takes alienation concept in different way from Marx . He sees the alienated person is individual who immersed completely in means and loses his essence and aims, and submits himself to life of society, without any kind of thinking, or critical attitude. Sartre sees even public education which encourages conformity, and mass media which through distraction take from the individual his capacity for real experience. (Alienation is far more pervasive for Sartre than it is for Marx, since it arises from the fact of social life, and not from one of its aspects, namely the mode of production. The individual can avoid this state of alienation only by assuming the determinations given him, by the look of other, the meaning inherent in his environment, and the techniques which he employs, as means to his own individual ends. Alienation is experienced by those individuals who are immersed in means and lose sight of ends, or accept their ends ready-made from exterior source. Alienation is the result of attitudes in bad faith, and its cure is the assumption of freedom. Bad faith is essentially a flight from responsible action, which is the only way to give a subjective meaning to the objective determinations which threaten us with alienation. Sartre’s alternative to alienation is more somber than that of Marx, as it brings with it anguish which result from a recognition of freedom.) Jean Paul Sartre- The Existentialist Ethic-by Norman N. Greene