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L’être humain, producteur et créateur : de Marx à Fromm et Nietzsche

💡 De Marx à Fromm et Nietzsche, une idée traverse la philosophie : l’homme se définit par son activité productive — matérielle, sociale, créatrice. Produire, c’est aussi se transformer soi-même. #Philosophie #Marx #Fromm #Nietzsche #Travail #Création #PostPolis L’être humain comme être productif : un fil rouge philosophique « Les humains produisent leurs propres besoins et transforment leur nature à…

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Homo Hortus · L’être humain, producteur et créateur : de Marx à Fromm et Nietzsche💡 De Marx à Fromm et Nietzsche, une idée traverse la philosophie : l’homme se définit par son activité productive — matérielle, sociale, créatrice. Produire, c’est aussi se transformer soi-même. #P…

"In the book Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism Is a Joke, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her time at a management-consulting firm in the waning days of the 1990s to explain her gradual realization that there was something off not just about her own job but about capitalism as a whole. The work that La Berge was engaged in at the murkily named “Conglomerate,” was tangentially related to what is commonly referred to as Y2K, though La Berge’s work at the Conglomerate was associated with documentation and legal protection, as opposed to technical remediation. As the book’s title makes clear, the work at the firm seemed largely “fake” to her, a sentiment which she in turn repeatedly projects onto the entirety of Y2K which the book repeatedly describes as a “fake crisis.” Though couched in a historical moment, Fake Work does not present itself as a history, or confine itself to a single genre, and is instead, as La Berge describes it, “a Marxist-inflected, queer, auto-theoretical work memoir” (206) in which La Berge moves between recounting office stories, commenting on Marx, and describing how her time at the Conglomerate eventually led her to her understanding and appreciation of Marx.

Fake Work provides a theoretically rich and often amusing picture of the banalities and absurdities of certain types of work. And those who have labored in such environments are likely to feel that she gets a lot right in her descriptions of those sorts of workplaces. Unfortunately, almost everything that Fake Work has to say about Y2K is either sorely lacking in historical and technical context, or is simply wrong.

In fairness, Fake Work isn’t really about Y2K. It’s about capitalism. But the book’s thoughtful and amusing critiques of capitalism are consistently undermined by the way this book misrepresents and oversimplifies Y2K."

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LibrarianShipwreck · If the work seems fake, does that mean the crisis is too? – A Review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s “Fake Work”“There is a general agreement that the Y2K transition went more smoothly than any of us would have imagined. In fact, as noted in the week since the rollover, some people have suggested that Y2K as…

Marx : un penseur incontournable pour comprendre les rapports de classe et l’expropriation capitaliste

Malgré les mutations du monde contemporain, la pensée de Marx reste centrale pour analyser les rapports de classe et comprendre le mécanisme fondamental d’expropriation capitaliste. Son œuvre demeure un outil critique puissant pour penser l’injustice sociale et imaginer des alternatives émancipatrices. #Marx #RapportsDeClasse #Capitalisme #CritiqueSociale

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Homo Hortus · Marx : un penseur incontournable pour comprendre les rapports de classe et l’expropriation capitalisteMalgré les mutations du monde contemporain, la pensée de Marx reste centrale pour analyser les rapports de classe et comprendre le mécanisme fondamental d’expropriation capitaliste. Son œuvre demeu…

„Alles, was die Menschen in Bewegung setzt, muss durch ihren Kopf hindurch; aber welche Gestalt es in diesem Kopf annimmt, hängt sehr von den Umständen ab.“ — Ohne Engels, heute am 5. August 1895 in London gestorben, hätte es Marx so nicht gegeben.
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🔍 Engels als Theoretiker entdecken: dietzberlin.de/herrn-eugen-due
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🔥 Engels als Ferienbegleiter: dietzberlin.de/produkt/friedri

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@ThomHartmann

That's the problem with a 'gilded age'; only the veneer is golden, while the bulk is a base metal, nasty, brutish and short, consisting mostly of proles. Just a bit of inescapable weathering, and the truth becomes apparent.

Marx et la pluralité des perspectives : comprendre les contradictions sociales par les visions situées

🔍 « Pour Marx, chaque groupe social perçoit la réalité selon ses intérêts et conditions propres. Cette pluralité des points de vue, loin d’être un obstacle, est au cœur d’une analyse dialectique qui saisit la complexité et les contradictions des rapports sociaux. » #Marx #PerspectivesSociales #Dialectique #Contradictions #SociologieCritique La pensée de Karl Marx…

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Homo Hortus · Marx et la pluralité des perspectives : comprendre les contradictions sociales par les visions situées🔍 « Pour Marx, chaque groupe social perçoit la réalité selon ses intérêts et conditions propres. Cette pluralité des points de vue, loin d’être un obstacle, est au cœur d’une analyse dialectique qu…
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I'm just finishing watching this. It is so illuminating.

#Followers, consider setting aside 2.5 hours to watch this. #MichaelHudson's speaking style doesn't quite match the expanse of his wisdom, but the wisdom shines through. He does fumble a bit with 'automatic intelligence,' but comparing #AI to the #mechanization of #labor and #Marx and #Ricardo is spot on. There are SO MANY valuable ideas in this talk. It is disruptive. We are not taught how the systems of #politics, #economics, #SocialSciences and #religion have an overall organization in western society, but he ties it together. Break it up if you have to, but watch this talk.

Original text of the Lord's Prayer:

"Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors."

The inversion of #Christianity in the #Catholic Church to become the origins of the modern #banking system is a mind-altering re-teaching of history.

#GlobalWarming = #debt. 🤯