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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 ....

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.... 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 describes as communal. Marx sees material alienation as the cause of social or psychological alienation. Material alienation he said is caused by the existence of private property. Private property came into existence through the (unequal) division of labor. Division of labor, therefore, is the central idea on which Marx bases his arguments concerning the eventual (inevitable) outcome of alienated labor. Division of labor, in which the contradictions between the forces of production, the st ....