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1.For me, coming across a book about Karl Marx's theory of alienation was one of the milestones in understanding the world around me and in labeling some of my own issues.
It's a timeless and universal concept that can be applied almost to any era or socio-political system. "The death of Ivan Ilych", "Madame Bovary", "The Metamorphosis" - to name just a few.
The theory applies now more than ever, when the the values of civic duty and critical learning have been replaced by
the corporate values of self-interest, self-commodification and learning interpreted as exclussively the acquisition of skills for corporate trades.
I've always been fascinated by Marx's theory of alienation and initially I assumed that,by association, his other -political and economic- theories were also appropriate and reflected universal truths.
Or so I thought before joining this forum. I'm now leaning towards the opposite side.
2.Is what's happening at the moment -the current movement towards globalization- just another attempt to recreate Marx's socialist /communist utopia? Or is something more sinister going on, like "collectivistic socialism only for the poor, under the thumb of the ruthless corporate ruling class" ?
Because there are too many elements today that remind one of the former USSR.
It's a timeless and universal concept that can be applied almost to any era or socio-political system. "The death of Ivan Ilych", "Madame Bovary", "The Metamorphosis" - to name just a few.
The theory applies now more than ever, when the the values of civic duty and critical learning have been replaced by
the corporate values of self-interest, self-commodification and learning interpreted as exclussively the acquisition of skills for corporate trades.
I've always been fascinated by Marx's theory of alienation and initially I assumed that,by association, his other -political and economic- theories were also appropriate and reflected universal truths.
Or so I thought before joining this forum. I'm now leaning towards the opposite side.
2.Is what's happening at the moment -the current movement towards globalization- just another attempt to recreate Marx's socialist /communist utopia? Or is something more sinister going on, like "collectivistic socialism only for the poor, under the thumb of the ruthless corporate ruling class" ?
Because there are too many elements today that remind one of the former USSR.
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