Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:36:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Alienation vs Reification


I know that Lukacs coined the term "reification"
(which he based it upon Weber's notion of
"rationalization"), before the discovery of the
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, but is
there actually any difference between alienation and
reification?

They are both referring to how we have agency but we
project this agency onto something else (e.g. God,
commodities, money, state etc).

===="Economic freedom would mean freedom from the economy - from being controlled by economic forces and relationships; freedom from the daily struggle for existence, from earning a living. Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no control. Similarly, intellectual freedom would mean the restoration of individual thought now absorbed by mass communication and indoctrination, abolition of "public opinion" together with its makers." Herbert Marcuse

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