Marx and Alienation: A Simple and Powerful Idea
Marx's Concept of Alienation
My book club @beerandfreedom.bsky.social is doing a deep dive on Marx's theory of alienation so I decided to write a very straightforward and accessible overview of the concept.
This could be a good one for the Marx-curious out there.
open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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hah. "everyone in this room has 4/39ths of a sniper dot on them" is actually a statistical error. actua
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putting in a freedom of information request to see if the government knows what's wrong with me
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jpeg artifacts on my aura
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"...except that of course in the end writing is the same as wearing clothes: You do it to have some say over how you look to the world, and you wind up revealing precisely what you've hidden, and more than you will ever know."
My Father's Fashion Tips, Tom Junod, GQ June 6 2007
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Yes, the Grink *was* there. He was there for *me*, Bryan, in ways you havenβt been. And, you know, itβs just so fucking *you* to keep bringing him up like itβs some kind of gotcha. This was never about me or my mistakes, itβs about your insecurity and Iβm sick of it. At least the Grink was *there*
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That Bubble Up is astonishingly chill
05.10.2025 14:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
finally manifested astrally but it's my worksona. fucking banish me
25.09.2025 19:28 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
organizing in ontario is like, there's an event you can go to next month to protest the death of every human, it's four hours away if you own a car
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photo of a cybertruck driving on a highway on a clear day with a fake truck cap built on top using some kind of similar colored sheet metal in an attempt to make the whole thing look like some kind of pickup truck
cropped version of the classic pig poop balls meme in which a poop sliding off the pig's massive sack slightly resembles the positioning of the fake truck cap. rearview mirror from the original photo included
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the great clown, at the study, working on their magnum oops
02.09.2025 16:40 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
you hit orfax, son of bolton. it was a great hit! orfax, son of bolton makes obscene gestures!
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I think there should be Field View, like Street View but for the fields of the world.
13.08.2025 02:29 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
a cartoon illustration of famous cartoon cat Garfield, styled as Garth Marenghi of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, with the lightly tinted aviator glasses, leather jacket, black button up and purple tie. he has a skull that is probably not Jon Arbuckle because it's far too small. the text reads "Mondays are my Darkplace"
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Over five months ago, we submitted this report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. It is titled, βHealthcare Workers as Human Rights Defenders: A Medical Perspective on Israelβs Genocide Enablement Apparatus In Gaza and Abroadβ.
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a burned out aluminum canoe
a burned CRT TV on a rock in a field with fire extinguisher powder all around
a burned out section of a wood retaining wall
a bulldozer flipped over on its side on a driveway in the snow
Some random photos I took at an old job
- the canoe fire
- the TV fire
- the retaining wall fire
- the bulldozer fire
it wasn't a firefighting job
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[interpreting a media archive engraved on a monomolecular ceramic disc in the nordic seed vault] riding until he can't no more implies that it is more than 1 day's ride to reach old town
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we are now entering the era of 10,000 articles all saying "I liked it when it was just apartheid, but this is too much"
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[caves of qud youtuber voice] lichen scribe
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A SKLEATAN WHOSE SAYIN " IF I EVER SAID ANYTHING STUPPID TO YOU, DONT WORRY IM STILL THINKING ABOUT IT " - AND THERE THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING THEY SAID IN 1998 THAT STILL POP'S INTO THERE HEAD AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH -IF YOUR THE ONE RUNNING THE SHOW INSIDE YOUR OWN BRAIN THEN WHY CANT YOU REMEBER YOUR FRIENDS FACES FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR THE SOUND OF YOUR GRANGMOTHERS VOICE BUT YOU DO REMEMBER SOMETHING THAT MADE PEOPLE LAUGH AT YOU 27 YEAR'S AGO????? WHY CAN YOU STILL SING ADVERTISING JINGLE'S FROM CHILD HOOD BUT ENTIRE YEAR'S ARE MISSING IF YOU TRY TO THINK ABOUT THEM???? CLEARLY THIS SHIT IS BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING IN SOME WAY IF IT AINT IN FACT SET UP TO TORTURE US AND COLLECT THE PSYCHIC ENERGY FROM OUR SUFFERING FOR SOME OTHER NEFARIOUS REASON, BUT FUCK IT IM OFF WORK UNTIL TUESDAY AND IM GOING TO FEED MY BRAINS HUNGRY RECEPTOR'S WITH SOME GOOD SHIT UNTIL THEN "ALL IS TEMPORARY, ALL CAN KISS MY A$$" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
DONT WORRY - dashare.zone ADMIN
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the Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone
FTC Introduces Heavy Restrictions on Imported Fisher-Price Telecommunications Equipment
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4 panel meme.
panel 1: trans flag dress character says to mom "Mom... I'm trans."
panel 2: front facing shot of mom saying "is that because of that game you play?"
panel 3: the angry char in trans dress says "oh yeah, lemme check if i accidentally played the fucking game that makes you trans"
panel 4: the character says "oh fuck" and looks at their hand, holding the Caves of Qud logo
#CavesOfQud
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i am always saying shit like this to my friends. To see who really cares ...
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Everyone please please please read my latest book: Corporate Control. It explains how government has been completely captured by corporations and corporate logic and demonstrates how obtuse this comment from Long is.
www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
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trying this #lifehack so that the body gets healthcare
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people get mad about the 10 seconds they spend in their car waiting to pass a cyclist or the 17 seconds extra it takes to drive a section of motorway with a lower speed limit because if they turned their anger towards the 40+ hour workweek the grief over all the lost time would consume them
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new pope leo xiv with some cardinals. he has mac address 00:50:c2:8f:fc:03 and a disappointed cardinal has 70:9a:0b:8c:3f:16
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