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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
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 sti... See more
The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Joan C. Williams
The old politicians in the Global North are desperately seeking to overcome the gap between the need for transnational capital for continued neoliberal globalization and a growing desire of the electorate to return to the capitalist nation-based welfare state. -Torkil Lauesen pp.356
And then when you ask yourself the question, how is it, for instance, that healthcare has become less and less affordable in this country, more and more people are being dispossessed of the right to healthcare? You ask yourself the question, who is getting rich in this situation? Well, it’s those very, very small elite who are getting so much money... See more
On Neoliberalism: An Interview with David Harvey | MR Online
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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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
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