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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
Patriotism
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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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of... See more
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
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
Fascism as its own ideal-type can be understood as a synthesis between the Jock-Douche and the Creep-Loser: a cult of sheer physical of strength and action wedded to a wounded and brooding consciousness of impotence and humiliation.
John Ganz • The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism
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
There is political crisis because the bourgeoisie is divided between those who wish to resume neoliberal globalization -change everything to keep everything the same— and paleo-conservative factions who want to return to a nation-based accumulation of capital, authoritarian rule, and warfare to secure the lion's share of the global spoils.
The split
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