i actually think that marx' diatribes about "alienation" are the worthless, masturbatory (and, frankly, bourgeois) parts of marxism that are best done away with, and one of the reasons i'd rather call myself an anarchist. it's also a kind of relic of marx' love-hate relationship with religion, and his inability to completely sever himself from it, the way that kropotkin or bakunin did.

i don't want to be a part of a community, and i don't want to join a political movement that insists i must be, or insists i must define myself that way - i want to be an individual that exists outside of any collectivist entity, and i actually see capitalism as a system that minimizes and distorts the individual (i know that's what marx actually said) rather than one that exalts it. we need collectivism in production to make sense of it, but the point should be to manifest human individuality - and i don't want to join your movement if you want to negate or minimize that.

humans do not have a definable nature or essence in any non-trivial sense, and there is no shared human condition. it's just a bunch of empty philosophizing - bourgeois, pointless nonsense.

as an anarchist, i cite marx for his economic and political ideas; i don't care much for his philosophical positions.

so, how do we overcome this?

meh. i'd rather embrace it...