ABSTRACT
Marxists are committed to progressive social change; for them change from capitalism to a democratic form of socialism is the paramount policy objective. Humanized capitalism is taken to be a contradiction in terms. Their analysis of capitalism provides both a basis for rejection of what they understand as an exploitative and inherently divisive system and a basis for their work for social transformation. Ernest Mandel has described this process of change as one involving progressive disalienation: the regaining by workers of collective control over the product of their work and over the organization of the work they do, and the elimination of divisions among the people involved in productive and reproductive work.
