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Money, the Alienated Power of Humanity

In: 10th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice | RSACVP 2018 | 20-21 April 2018 | Suceava – Romania

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  • RariÈ›a Mihail

    (Dunărea de Jos University, Galati)

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From a chronological point of view, the original discourse of Marx on money has been marked, first of all, by the ethical tradition that considers money as a source of corruption in human relations, and connects directly to individual vices such as the greed for money and selfishness. Thus, in the Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx adopted the principle of Moses Hess regarding the support to the critical issues of alienation over a certain conception of money (the distorted representation of human activity, an agent of corruption of social life and responsible for a reversal of the normal order of life). In this article, we argue that through Marx's philosophical criticism of money in his third manuscript, through his report on two literature references, he tries to prove the abstraction power specific to money. I have developed this thesis by studying in three times the way in which money generates a triple abstraction-alienation: the abstraction and alienation of the object, the alienation-abstraction of the subject, and the alienation-abstraction of the generic humankind in its entirety.

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  • RariÈ›a Mihail, 2018. "Money, the Alienated Power of Humanity," Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings, in: Antonio SANDU & Tomita CIULEI (ed.), 10th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice | RSACVP 2018 | 20-21 April 2018 | Suceava – Romani, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 22, pages 235-253, Editura Lumen.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:prchap:05-22
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc.51
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    Keywords

    Karl Marx; capitalism; alienation; the power of money; derealization of mankind;
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    JEL classification:

    • A3 - General Economics and Teaching - - Multisubject Collective Works
    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General

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