Red Plenty
He is concerned with the liberation of man from a kind of work which destroys his individuality, which transforms him into a thing, and which makes him into the slave of things. Just as Kierkegaard was concerned with the salvation of the individual, so Marx was, and his criticism of capitalist society is directed not at its method of distribution... See more
Marx's Concept of Man. Erich Fromm 1961
This period has been addressed by Franco Berardi, and later by Mark Fisher, as “the slow cancellation of the future.” Referencing Moishe Postone’s 1996 book Time, Labor, and Social Domination and Spencer Leonard’s 2009 essay, “Going it Alone: Christopher Hitchens and the Death of the Left,” Wolfe writes: The ceaseless proliferation of the new now... See more
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
“The life which he has given to the object sets itself against him as an alien and hostile force,” Marx mused. “If the product of labor does not belong to the worker, but confronts him as an alien power, this can only be because it belongs to a man other than the worker.” The domination of labor by capital took the form of a modern animism, a
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