Part one of term paper
The focus of Marx's philosophical writings is alienation. He believes that social or psychological alienation arises out of economic or material alienation. In other words, consciousness is determined by material conditions, as opposed to the prevailing view of his day that said that consciousness determines material conditions. Another w ...

Part two of term paper
... to the power and size of his production... Marx sees the alienation of labor as return to feudalism, as is evidenced by his references to landlords and peasants in his writings about alienated labor. He sees this as the ultimate surrendering of the human spirit (in terms of social and psychological alienation) to the material alienation of capitalism. Furthermore, he sees it as a cycle that can and must be broken in order to allow us the full expression of our species essence, which he d ...