Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Josh Cohen

Quote by Josh Cohen

“The manic productivity of capitalism, the demands and aspirations of social status and the mechanical rhythms of industrialism all corral the individual into a perpetual state of anxious and compliant activity.”

Quote by Josh Cohen

Book:Not Working
Create image

Work

Not Working

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Josh Cohen

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Josh Cohen. more

You May Also Like

“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
Create image