Rupnisha Das
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Rupnisha Das
Alienation has to do with what happens to workers under the conditions of wage labor (the industrial division of labor). Marx pointed out that there are four aspects to alienation. Wage laborers are alienated from their products, from their labor, from their “species-being” (human essence) and from other workers.
Japan, reinventing its agriculture, has accomplished abruptly and rapidly what the United States did somewhat more gradually and Western Europe more gradually still. It created rural productivity upon a foundation of city productivity. There is no inherent reason why this cannot be done by other nations even more rapidly. Modern productive
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Agriculture in Asia is dependant on factors far removed from the presumed European Baseline
I was encouraged to pursue this path after noticing that in North China, where dry cereals were the staple crops, a pattern of development of technology and of relations of production rather similar to that of Northwest Europe had started to emerge in the early centuries AD, typified by the formation of large estates, centrally managed and heavily
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