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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Karl Marx

Red Menace

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The Perversity of the Human Condition

The perversity of this mark says lies in the fact that we only feel human in our animal functions. What is animal becomes human and what is human becomes animal how could any of us not find this state of affairs deeply alienating after having laid out how workers are alienated from the product of their labor marks turns towards the sense of alienation which humans have towards themselves under capitalism. Of course I would add taking a shit for what is one of the most common ways we kill time at our soul-crushing jobs if not by going into the bathroom and extending it as long as we can I myself hold a personal record which I'm very proud of of once taking a two-hour

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