Repair is an implicit rejection of alienated labor—the kind of labor performed under the dictates of an employer who treats workers as means to maximize profits. As Marx argued in the Economic and ...

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...

This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...