The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability: Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits

Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure. Natural economic evolution would eliminate it, but the ruling classes are suppressing the evolution out of self-interest, so a revolution needs to bring about the evolution.