This Week In Sunday Letters
Content from weekending 21st April 2024
Last week on The Future of Work, I wrote how Chomsky stated in his famous 1971 conversation with Foulcault, that if one of the fundamentals of human nature was to have freedom in their work, then a decent society must ensure this is realised. In other words, we must strive to overcome the power systems that limit these freedoms and force us to become cogs in the machine of industry. Read more here;
The False Promise of The Future of Work
In the famous 1971 Foucault Chomsky discussion on Power and Justice, Chomsky stated that if one of the fundamentals of human nature was the freedom to create without the constraints of hierarchical systems, then a decent society must ensure this is realised. That is to say, we must strive to overcome the power systems that limit our freedoms and force u…
Marx: Why Do We Work?
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002 The Philosophy of Why We Work
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