“So, if capitalism is not really the root of the problem socialist societies share with late capitalist societies, there must be something else, something shared in common. And that, it would seem to me, is industrialism. That, and the peculiar social forms generated by the industrial process itself. Centralization is a dynamic shared, of necessity, by any industrial/industrializing society. Rationalization is another factor...assembly line workers are alienated [not] so much by the abstract notion of their "distancing" from their "product" or "profit" so much as they are alienated by the sheer physical misery of being trapped in a factory.” CapitalismSocialismIndigenous WisdomIndustrialism Author:Frank Black Elk