Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April
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The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.
Reading List:
Marxists.org page on Alienation
http://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/index.htm
Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/work.html
From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6) http://libcom.org/library/from-mans-alienation-to-human-community-communism-6
An Anarchist Critique of Democracy http://www.againstallauthority.org/democracy.html (also available as audio here http://www.archive.org/details/AAnarchistCritiqueOfDemocracy )
Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social transformation – Solidarity Federation (Direct Action #47) http://www.direct-action.org.uk/docs/DA-SF-IWA-47.htm#33
Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.
Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4
Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.
Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’
David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/sheffield-communist-discussion-group-14th-april-alienation/
http://yorks-afed.org/2010/03/communist-discussion-group-alienation/
Marxists.org page on Alienation
http://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/index.htm Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation
http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/work.html From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6)
http://libcom.org/library/from-mans-alienation-to-human-community-communism-6 An Anarchist Critique of Democracy
http://www.againstallauthority.org/democracy.html (also available as audio here http://www.archive.org/details/AAnarchistCritiqueOfDemocracy ) Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social transformation – Solidarity Federation (Direct Action #47)
http://www.direct-action.org.uk/docs/DA-SF-IWA-47.htm#33 Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.
Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4 Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.
Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’
David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/sheffield-communist-discussion-group-14th-april-alienation/ http://yorks-afed.org/2010/03/communist-discussion-group-alienation/
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11.04.2010 22:16
And all lifeforms are governed by the value of these objects.
Thats called 'incentive'. If an animal is hungry, it will put a large value on food and have a large incentive to eat it (ie. the incentive is hunger pains).
I really don't see why humans should be any different regarding the value of objects. In fact, I'd argue it is much more so, since much of our evolution is based on the use of tools and modifying the world around us through our will.
Unless your saying that we should wipe out millions of years of evolution from our neuro pathways. But then, we will no longer be humans would we? Some kind of artificial pseudo human.
Something to think about.
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