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Questions

1. In the section titled "Estranged Labor," Marx discusses four aspects of alienation: (1) alienation of the laborer from his product, (2) alienation of the laborer from the act of production, (3) alienation from man's species being, and (4) alienation of man from man. What does it mean for the laborer to be alienated in each of these senses?

2. What does Marx mean when he says that the state can be free while the citizens are not

3. What does Marx mean by "species being"? In what sense is this Marx's theory of human nature?

4. What is the difference between "political emancipation" and "human emancipation"?

5. What is Mill's conception of liberty? What is the relationship between liberty and democracy according to Mill?

6. According to Mill the liberty to live as one likes is not only good for the individual but beneficial for society. Why does he say this?

7. Mill offers four reasons for why a political society protect the freedom of thought and discussion-what are they? What role does truth play?

8. The question that Marx addresses is how the emancipation of the Jews could be achieved. Liberals (like Mill) argued for separation of religion and politics (i.e. remove civil disabilities based on religion). Bruno Bauer, a philosopher who was a student of Hegel's, argued that emancipation of the Jews required that they renounce their religion. What does Marx think is wrong with both the liberal solution and Bauer's solution?