Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach is an exclusive note written the document that includes eleven small pieces of notes, which describe the few light setting works of philosophy on the discovery of the new world. The thesis describes the breakthrough in the world of philosophy, from the world of idealism, to the world of Marxism (Jal, p 1). The hypotheses describe the whole process of transition of knowledge through the provision of the truth, by exerting reality, and the power of knowledge in knowledge attribution.
The thesis describes the transition that the world undergoes due to changes in the ways of man, describing men as objects of revolution, and grouping the world into two sets, with one sect being superior to the other. The world is believed to thrive under two sets, too, the religious sect and the secular world. There are a practical and theoretical alienation and separation of the world factions from each other by the facts offered (Engels, p 2).
The idea of knowledge, its level of productivity can, therefore, be related to various aspects of innovations and the management in organizations. Knowledge is usually based on the political, social and the cultural aspects, upon which a person operates. Knowledge has various limits that are associated with its alienation as well as violence (McEwan, par 4). There are numerous cases of people using power to subdue, and even humiliate those below them. Power and absolute knowledge corrupt, which usually makes people with knowledge poses a high level of violence, unlike the ones with a lower level (Gurd, p16).
The idea of the violence and the alienation can be attributed to the works of Karl Marx, alienation, which usually describes the history of human beings in two aspects. The work describes the man as a creature that shows domination over nature; while on the other hand, it shows man as a creature who is doomed by the forces of his creations (Coser, par 1). The theory of alienation indicates that man exists in the order of stratified social classes. The man is alienated from self by the self-removal from the rest of the society. In most cases, alienation occurs due to the inability of man to determine his destiny, as related to the other aspects of production and capitalistic market.
In Du Bois’s work, The Propaganda of History, he portrays a society that is doomed by injustices such as the Jim Crow laws, in America due to the separation between the blacks and the whites, based on their races. DU Bois shows a society that uses knowledge to oppress the other humans. The story shows how men used to suppress other in the South America, without regard to their rights. The North, however, shows a nation that relies on the use of democracy, and other abolition of slavery (Sterling, par 5). The construction termed the black people as Negros, who were ignorant, lazy, extravagant, dishonest, and responsible for governmental instabilities in America.
In the works of Vine Deloria, Indians of American Imagination, the writer portrays a society that is based on the reservation of culture. The author shows an organization that has its culture interfered with by the powers and the domination of the colonialists. The Indians and the colonialists have differences in their cultures, and thus, it can be argued that the process of delineating and renegotiating the Euro-America cultures as critical for the Indian society (Huhndorf, par 3).
The theory of violence and alienation can also be explained through the comparison between the Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and the Albert Camus, The Stranger. The two stories illustrate the process and the relationship between the living and the dead. The two stories show how the dead and the living relate, which can be the spiritual connectivity or even emotional alienation. The Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony story explains the world in two perspectives, the earth, and the "four worlds’ below, a place where the dead spirits reside (Austgen, par 1). The Stranger, by Albert, shows the death of the mother of the writer. The death alienates the child from the love of the parent, which affects the way the child lives life (Gilbert, p 10).
The film, Dark Days, by Marc Singer, shows how the society is cruel, alienating families and letting them sleep sin underground tunnels. The families are neglected and even left aside by the government. The police and the railway authorities turn against the filmmaker and threaten to evict the people living in the tunnels, which is a violation of their rights and even a show of disrespect to humanity. Deporting these people would have more problems since they had nowhere to go to and even call home.
In conclusion, it can be said that knowledge has led to the human suffering and even increased the world’s problems through the violence and even alienation, which is bound by the social, political, and even cultural factors. According to Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, is can, therefore, be argued that man has been able to undergo a lot of changes, which have not only affect the way he lives but also the whole community. The activities that person undertakes are the ones that bring suffering through violence and even alienation of self, in the world.
Therefore, it can be argued that the interpretation of knowledge that brings about epistemic violence, and also the alienation of labor, have consequences to our lives. The description usually causes drastic challenges to humanity, either through the social, personal and the political directions. The above used books and films have been able to show how man uses his knowledge and understanding to humiliate other, by either sidelining them, on the social basis, political orientation or even the personal capacity.
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