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Work under capitalism alienated individuals from themselves since work is no longer a joy, but simply a means to earn wages to survive
Saul McLeod • Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology
In Western discourse, it is claimed that democracy and liberal market capitalism are linked together as conjoined twins. However, liberal capitalism thrives when linked with fascism, as we have seen in Nazi Ger-many, Franco's Spain, and Pinoche's Chile.
If the development of liberal democracy is linked to something, then it is linked to colonialism.
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Anomie is used to indicate a set of phenomena whereby the norms of social structures enter into crisis following an extension of the division of labor
Olivia Guy-Evans • Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology
Proudhon: What is Property?
youtube.comThe right to product is exclusive, the right to means is common. Everything is really only borrowed.
If the transnational companies wanted access to chinas labor force and infrastructure, then China demanded access to the technology and science behind production. pp.271
Torkil Lauesen - The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
In elite circles, we feel entitled to self-development because it’s available to us, and we focus on self-development and maximizing our skills because that’s what succeeds in elite jobs. But if your best hope for stability is a blue- or pink-collar job where you need to show up reliably without attitude to a job that’s often not intellectually... See more
The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Joan C. Williams
The social reality of capitalism is “totalizing” in unprecedented ways and degrees. Its logic of commodification, accumulation, profit-maximization, and competition permeates the whole social order; and an understanding of this “totalizing” system requires just the kind of “totalizing knowledge” that Marxism offers and postmodernists reject.
Monthly Review | The Necessity of a Universal Project
As long as elites empathize deeply with immigrants while judging and dismissing middle-status people’s pain, we won’t help immigrants.