The next Banter will be on Saturday, April 24th at 10:30 a.m.
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Why did Karl Marx Hate the Earl Grey?
Because all proper tea is theft.
Homework: Please read the following document:
Heavy, right? The reading was the easy part but it will, likely, require a little additional study and pondering to be prepared to banter it about.
There is a lot of additional material on this topic, online, that may be beneficial for prepping. Search terms like ’Marx’s theory of alienation’ and ‘Entfremdung’ may be helpful. You can also click on the ’table of contents’ in the link, above, to see this topic in the context of other other Marx manuscripts (but, please, don’t feel like you have to digest the entirety of those 19th century sources). Look for more modern sources and personal connections, or disagreements with, Marx’s philosophy of alienation.
As always the banter is an opportunity to pull on various threads and chase rabbits, so follow your muse. That said, Marxism would be way too huge and generalized of a topic to tackle in its entirety. The main focus of this banter is less on broad Marxist economics and more, specifically, on this social philosophy of the ‘estrangement’ of the working class from their true human nature.
Here are some questions (that I stole from a YouTube video) that may be helpful in getting the creative juices flowing:
Have you had work experiences where you felt alienated from the product or the process?
What are types of work, in modern society, that demonstrate alienation per Marx's definition?
How does not experiencing our 'species essence' impact society?
There is no requirement to submit your thoughts or any additional videos/reading but, if you find something interesting or helpful, feel free to submit that material to Mitch, via email, by April 18th and I will post it here.
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