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Plastic Surgery and the Bottomless Pit of Alienation

Marx Engels Institute

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Is Botox a Manifestation of the Status of Women?

I thinke, when you see cultural like trends, you generally see their most extreme expressions only in narrow segments of the population. I think it's representative of just broader ideas of beauty and women and the general differentiation that we have under capitalism. Of course, i think it's all very much tied to alienation and commercialization of relationships and things like that. And so i think it still has,. even though most people don't end updoing cosmetic procedures  in terms of bo talks and in terms of passic surgery, i still think that the kind of standards that are being set through ad the acceptability of the stuff, am is a real phenomenon.

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