From the Theory on Alienation of Labor to the Theory onAlienati on of Social Relationships——Development of Marx's Concept of Alienation in His Paris Period

For a long time the on of has been regarded in the academic circle as Marx's major idea in his Paris period.Many scholars referred to it in explaining and elaborating on Marx's idea of alienation.Some even considered that this was Marx's lifelong idea of alienation.However,if we study Marx's works in that period as a whole,we may find out that his idea in that period was still changing and developing.A piece of obvious evidence comes from the ideas Marx expressed when referring to James Muller's work Principles of Political Economy,which developed alienation of labor to alienation of social relationships.This is a phenomenon that needs special attention to understand Marx in that period.Besides,from the logic of heritage of ideas,without the theory of of social relationships as the intermediary it was impossible for Marx to move on to new explanations of the phenomenon of from the perspective of historical materialism in his work German Ideology.