Alienation
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The Importance of the Process of Production
The poet is creating something according to their own plan, right? So on the one hand, you might say that they're not alienated from the process. All they need is a pen and paper, which they own. They own the means of production. But they definitely are alienated from the product if they're trying to publish it and sell it because they will sell it for a price to a particular zine or journal or whatever it is collection. Yes. Well, I agree with you that my first intuition would be to say that they are alienated from their work because they have to sell it,. especially if they have to give up copy writes to the publisher.
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