individual into a little niche of the great productive machine where he is doomed to perform an alienated and alienating labour. It is the destruction of the whole meaning of work and the whole meaning of collective life. It is the reduction of life to private life, outside of labour and outside of all collective action. It is the reduction of even this private life to material consumption. And it is finally the alienation of consumption itself through the permanent manipulation of the individual as consumer. YOUTH SECTION To-day love could prepare an appalling indictment of tenderest and most valued feelings of emotional capabilities aati sation of all the social tenderness bourgeois relations have deprived him, man vainly to rengion, nate, paulouism, lascism, and a tims and novers which Dain cannot experience in real life.
Because of this he is neurotic, unhappy, the mass-hatreds of war and racism, to absurd and yet impossible loyaltes Hiters and grandmothers. Because Not thiste seems to num empty, stale and unprofitable. Man delights him not, nore woman neither Caudwell Trotsky.
The personality structure of man today characterised by an armouring against nature within himself and against social misery outside himself. This amouring of the character is the basis of loneliness, helplessness, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystical longing, sexual misery, impotent rebelliousness as well as of resignation of an unnatural and pathological type. Human beings have taken a hostile attitude towards that in themselves which is living, and have alienated themselves from it. This alienation is not of biological, but of social and economic origin.
Estrangement;
discipline, patrolled by net mines are examinations. Their hearts frozen by authority. Their policed Dy state within the state mimes. the society from which they are insulated. And yet, they do no own, and they do not belong Thou shalt not question authority. Angelo Guerroch YOU CHARGE US WITH WANTING TO STOP THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN BY THEIR PARENTS? TO THIS CRIME WE PLEAD GUILTY.
Communist Manifesto. and violent, or in a countryside that every day gets more overrun with arterial roads and factories They were happy because of the comradeship, the shared experience. They were happy because they had taken their destinies into their own hands, because they were creating their own world The enemy is alienation just as much as it is poverty and injustice. It is not only the distribution of wealth that has to be changed - it is the quality of life under capitalism, the lack of purpose. the absurdity of most work, the pressures against social warmth and tenderness. It is the meanness Wist For a sole ty the fist opta. The gra saps ople ur Soci. - does e be ase it does no, efficiency, modernisation, A small example: in the name of efficiency they have installed automatic ticket-collecting machines on the London Underground. They are "efficient" because people won't be able to fiddle them and travel free, and because they'll mean London Transport can cut down on staff. But instead of making travelling easier or more comfortable; these things make it more difficult. They actually slow down the rush-hour. And you just try getting through them with a suitcase, or There is another way which would make the Underground ten time more efficient, and which - and that is, to make it free. There are a whole number of things like this that we pay for that we needn't pay for at all - and that would work much better if we didn't pay for them. But they'll never do that, becauae what their efficiency is A bigger example: take the existence of buildings like Centre Point - huge skyscrapers kept empty because it is actually profitable to charge such impossibly high rents that - but when they do the owners will make an absolute bomb. Meanwhile twenty thousand people are homeless; hundreds of thousands on the housing The liberal newspapers and the TV current affairs programmes tut-tut about these things daily.
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