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 o... See more
Marx's Concept of Man. Erich Fromm 1961
According to this view, free-market capitalism and state-controlled communism aren’t competing ideologies, ethical creeds or political institutions. They are, in essence, competing data-processing systems. Capitalism uses distributed processing, whereas communism relies on centralised processing.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Take capitalism. For the left, it’s exploitative. The Industrial Revolution gave evil capitalists the technology to use and abuse workers as dumb machine-parts in their factories and mines and reap all the profits. The workers fought back, unionising and electing more enlightened politicians and then, in the 1980s, the capitalists became resurgent,
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In its broad outlines this theory maintains that the restructuring of the world economy, in particular the computer and information revolutions, have ushered in a phase of capitalist development, partially anticipated by Marx in the Grundrisse, in which science becomes the main productive force and the valorization process is fueled by the cognitiv
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