alienation economy
2.The alienation and degeneration of man discloses the darkness of the American society as a whole and its social maladies in spite of its prosperous economy and material civilization, hence explores the hollow promises and the ensuing disillusionment of the deep-rooted American Dream.
3.In the sphere of political economy, this realisation of labour appearsas a loss of reality for the worker, objectification as loss of and bondage to the object, and appropriation as estrangement, as alienation [Entausserung].

