The purpose of this essay is to explore alienation as a crucial problem of our historic time, seeking to emphasize the meanings of the concept of "positive self-transcendence of alienation", which is considered by István Meszáros as the central axis of Marxian reflection in the Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts. To do so, it looks at the new historic registration of Aufhebung considering the conditions of the structural crisis of capital and the rule of global capitalism as manipulative capitalism. It addresses the ontological centrality of the problematic of everyday life and alienation from the perspective of the radical criticism of work. Finally, it raises elements for reflection, from a radical Marxist perspective, about the transition as being the problem of production of human subjects, capable of positive self-transcendence from alienation.
Alienation; Labor; Marxism; Everyday life