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DESCRIPTION:Alienation, Ideology and Everyday Life\nA talk by Richard Lichtman\nMarx's 
 theory of social organization contains an indispensable account of the 
 mystification of social life.  This phenomenon is contained in this 
 theories of alienation, fetishism of commodities, and ideology.  The 
 considerations help to explain why individuals and groups often act against 
 their own best interests or do not act at all.  The tendency of human 
 activity to appear as laws of nature precludes any meaningful action.  I 
 will refer briefly at the conclusion of my talk to the use made of Lukács, 
 and others, of what came to be known as "reification," literally, the 
 semblance of human relations as "things."  Relations among human beings 
 appear at things, laws of nature, and it makes no sense to attempt to 
 change laws of nature.  So, reification, a total view of alienation and 
 ideology, appear unalterable, and thereby minimize or destroy completely 
 the tendency to revolutionary change.\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Alienation, Ideology and Everyday Life - A talk by Richard Lichtman
LOCATION:Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. \nOakland, CA 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/19/18730555.php
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