Reification

[Dominick]

What exactly is the meaning of this term? And how does it relate to alienation?

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Check these out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_%28Marxism%29

However, the best modern critique of this traditional error (one that all Marxist Philsophers also commit, despite the other negative things they say about it) is to be found in Wittgenstein's (later) work.

[Hence, his criticisms loom large at my site.]