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The concept of a >form of alienation< is used by current Soviet philosophers in 2 different senses: (1) as relating to various aspects of social activity (social, political, ideological, religious, etc), and (2) as relating to different historical stages. Alienation has existed under all class-antagonistic social orders, but alienation under capitalism possesses a number of distinctive characteristics. Under this social order, all other >forms of alienation< existing in particular spheres of social activity, arise from the alienation of labor. The mechanisms of alienation are analyzed in highly-developed capitalist society from the perspectives of such Western thinkers as E. FROMM, and from the views of Marx and Engels.