Karl Marx showed that Capitalism disrupts the natural human potential for bonding and freedom, and transform them into mere servants of alienated money. In Capitalism money distorts the potential of human relationship, and in this sense it makes such a relationship dead and abstract - to be mere representation of dead money. Money makes human relationships exploitive; it transforms human relation between things - humans become commodities to be used and manipulated by greed. Money in this sense is not simple money, but it represents the alienated social forces that distorts our humanity. Capitalism conditions our social and psychological features in accordance with the deadening, abstract, and exploitive features of money. It instills in us feelings and thoughts which are not our own, and which oppose our humanity. In the last analysis our alien social and psychological features can be traced to the social/economic system where money plays the dominant role in human relationships. Thus, our humanity is transformed into its opposite. As alienated human beings we see a distorted representation of reality. Since human relations are alienated relations that are dominated by money and commodities, potential human feelings such as love, compassion, the ability to feel joy, sadness, and to experience spontaneity are suppressed. They are dulled by the commodification of human relations. - Alienation in Post-Coldwar Era
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:23:05 +0000
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