> How many of us work countless hours for companies whose missions we don’t perhaps even agree with…
And there you have Marxist Alienation in a nutshell, and a new thematic thread to read though, if you're interested.
And there you have Marxist Alienation in a nutshell, and a new thematic thread to read though, if you're interested.
Whether it's easy to get back to that communal (community/communist) life of the very old days "after the revolution" is a whole 'nother question, of course. The history of self-identified communist societies suggests that it's no cakewalk.
So yes, exploitation is a huge part of the problem, but ending that is a means to an end, to community and a more human life. Marx seemed to want to restrict production (to prevent "overproduction" (recessions) not to keep going towards more and more material wealth.