Abstract
Species‐Being (Gattungswesen) , a controversial Feuerbachian‐inspired term refashioned in Marx's critique of Hegel's idealist philosophy, is central to Marx's conception of alienation and true communism. Hegel had argued the form and substance of knowledge developed historically. The conscious mind (Geist) initially experiences reality as external and separate; it does not know that alien world. From its first sensory encounter, the mind becomes conscious of itself and through a complex, dialectical subject/object interaction process develops an increasingly comprehensive intellectual grasp of reality, culminating in an Absolute Spirit (Geist) . Overcoming the original perception of separation – alienation – mind's full potential is actualized in the totality of Absolute Being.
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