[Peace-discuss] America is engulfed in a crisis of meaning—and it's killing us | Opinion

[David Green]

Marx tells us that we can see alienation at two levels. First, in the
relation of the worker to the product of his labor: this latter becomes
alien to him, and to produce it, man must become alien to himself and to
other men. That is because the product of the activity of the worker
belongs to another: the activity of the one who produces constitutes her
own torment, but is a pleasure to another. The external world appears alien
and hostile. Second, in the relation of the worker to the act of
production: as an activity alien to man, the act of production creates in
her a feeling of powerlessness and of submission, "activity becomes
passivity, power becomes powerlessness."

Alien to his own nature, man is also alien to his real needs. And to
complete this process, the dominant ideology unceasingly diverts the
individual from his quest for his human essence and the satisfaction of his
needs, and perverts those needs by providing them with false gratifications.

http://internationalist-perspective.org/IP/ip-archive/ip_43_species-being.html



On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:02 PM Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <
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> *From: *"Szoke, Ron" <r-szoke at illinois.edu>
> *Subject: **Ben Shapiro: America is engulfed in a crisis of meaning—and
> it's killing us | Opinion*
> *Date: *December 4, 2018
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