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  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Engels first considered labor aristocracy, then Marx, but I doubt either realized the point it would reach.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Commodity fetishism on a scale too immense to imagine. A world where every action and movement is reified and nothing exists outside the commodity form. Even the workers themselves reduced to perceiving themselves and each other as commodity.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Even the workers themselves reduced to perceiving themselves and each other as commodity.

        But didn't they talk exactly about that?

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yep, Marx saw the system, I just don't think he saw how bad it would get. Like we exist on a whole new level of commodified reality that was only partially visible in the likes of company towns.