Alienation, Society, Citizen

Marx diagnoses the Citizen-State antithesis that obtains in some societies, and that is codified in some theories, as a manifestation of Alienation, i. e. of the Citizen's loss of the natural power of self-determination, and its re-location in some general abstract entity, e. g. the 'Economy', the 'Sovereign', etc.  Now though he does not consider it, the same antithesis can also be discerned in the most general society of all--the Species, beginning with the traditional Universal-Individual representation of it.  In contrast, as has been previously discussed, the Whole-Part representation of the Species-Member relation overcomes the Alienation, and, hence, is applicable to less general collectives, as well.