The Theory of Marxist Humanism
The term "Marxist humanism" has as its foundation Marx's conception of the "alienation of the labourer" as he advanced it in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 -- an alienation that is born of a capitalist system in which the worker no longer functions as (what Marx termed) a free being involved with free and associated labor. And although many scholars consider late Marx less of a humanist than the Marx who wrote pre-Das Kapital, as his later works are rather bereft of references to this alienation, others (for example David McLellan, Robert C. Tucker, George Brenkert) argue that the notion of alienation remains a part of Marx's philosophy. Teodor Shanin and Raya Dunayevskaya go further, asserting that not only is alienation present in the late Marx, but that there is no split between the young Marx and mature Marx.
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