How do we begin to undo the alienation and atomization caused by capitalism?
I know Cockshott had some interesting ideas for communes, but has there been any other real thought about how we address this problem?
How do we begin to undo the alienation and atomization caused by capitalism?
I know Cockshott had some interesting ideas for communes, but has there been any other real thought about how we address this problem?
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What I was referring to with Cockshott.
That comic is tumblr tier tbh.
The guy is the main character.
Anyone? Has no one really thought about it?
I think Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a good guide.
Once people no longer have to live in fear of going hungry or being persecuted by their government, they will have the time and energy to focus on rebuilding their personal relationships.
I know most of my alienation and resentment towards society comes from the fact that the police could show up and utterly destroy my life without warning. Without that threat my mind would be a lot more stable and I'd find it much easier to trust other humans.
inb4 bootlickers say "just don't break the law"
Yep, that's about right.
By seizing the means of production
Really it should just say "orgasms" or something.
Sex with another human would be better placed under "love/belonging", but orgasms are a fairly basic biological impulse.
what the fuck man, stop blaming your social ineptitude on others, that's one of the lamest reasons I heard
While doing uni work in a psychiatric clinic I met at least two schizophrenics who had it triggered by the fear they had of Milosevic's police.
Nice strawman.
1. I have "friends". (what is this, fucking highschool?)
2. Not everyone lives in the USA.
Frankly you sound like a liberal who has never left their own social bubble and claims to be communist because they think the Soviet aesthetic is trendy.
idk but we need to do something asap. i mean anything at this point is better than capitalism
That's just their conscience making them feel really bad
Alienation is completely different from social ineptitude.
You must have no experience of either to make that kind of mistake.
Shit comic. Alienation is an afterthought compared to real, physical problems. It will be solved by socialized work anyways. Stop talking about how alienated you are. You are overusing it and abusing it. Everyone is alienated. That was Marx's entire point almost.
By this logic, people who work in worker cooperatives should be completely unalienated.
Destroy techno industrial society, also
This can't be overstated. EVERYONE is alienated. Saying you are somehow more alienated that everyone else means you claim to have some unique relation to the MoP different to the rest of the proles.
Let's not confuse alienation with just being sad under capitalism.
It’s not just alienation, but atomization. I would argue that some are more “atomized” than others.
Coops arent socialism. Youve been memed on too hard. Alienation is the seperation of the worker from their work, and thusly the majority of the people from the economy. A socialist system, with actual socialized work, will fix alienation because by its definition it will.
It is like worrying about if you will be able to cross the river after the bridge is built. The answer is "No shit".
Thats basically exactly what I was getting at. Nice.
Does Marx ever use that word? I think I might remember Engels using it in reference to the nuclear family, but otherwise you are just pulling words from your ass. Anyways, you are obstructing a clear, scientific use of alienation with your considerably more subjective use of atomization. Yes, Capitalism makes some people unhappy. Socialist societies will be the same way. None of us can fix everything and no one here can actually tell you how to solve mental health issues on a mass scale to deal with whatever "atomization" is.
Marx never used the term Zig Forums guess this board don’t real.
And I think it’s very disingenuous to claim there isn’t a deliberate cultural movement to turn people into islands disconnected from any sense of community outside of transaction.
Also, I didn’t say coops were socialism, I said they were socialized labor.