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More pertinent, however, is that capitalism tends to stultify the worker's creativity, his human urge for self-expression, freedom, mutually respectful interaction with others, recognition of his self-determined sense of self, recognition of himself as a self rather than an object, a means to an end. Karl Marx called it "alienation." Capitalism alienates the worker--and the capitalist--from his "fundamental human need" for "self-fulfilling ..
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More pertinent, however, is that capitalism tends to stultify the worker's creativity, his human urge for self-expression, freedom, mutually respectful interaction with others, recognition of his self-determined sense of self, recognition of himself as a self rather than an object, a means to an end. Karl Marx called it "alienation." Capitalism alienates the worker--and the capitalist--from his "fundamental human need" for "self-fulfilling ..
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The record of so-called Communist revolutions in the twentieth century is instructive. While one can expect some Marxists to deny that lessons should be drawn from these revolutions, since they happened in relatively primitive rather than advanced capitalist countries, the experiences are at least suggestive. For what they created in their respective societies was not socialism (workers' democratic control of production) or communism (a cla..
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