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Alienation // Self​-​Actualization

from demonstration by Wild Poppies

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ALIENATION: SELF-ACTUALIZATION
:: working for a product that we can never own // selling off our nature is all we've ever known // toiling for another with a pittance for our time // fattening the owners, rewarding for their crime // working in a process that we can never control // appendages of machinery is our only role // sacrificing autonomy to those that pull the strings // a cog in the production, reduced to being things // working against people who we can never know // convinced that competition is the only way we'll grow // isolated from each other with no commonality // systematically prevented from solidarity // working for a purpose that we can never feel // going through the motions in a life that seems unreal // estranged from our nature, wasting away our lives // enriching another just so we'll survive :: our social aspect of individuality // through a production system that is privately owned // we all function not as social beings // but as instruments, commercial commodity // to be traded on the market //
is no substitute for social relationship // to be traded on the market // is no substitute for social relationship :: we must appropriate // the existing totality // of productive forces ::

This song is about Marx's Theory of Alienation. Lyrics written by Stas of A//political.
"The theoretic basis of alienation, within the capitalist mode of production, is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being, as an economic entity, this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production, in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus value, in the course of business competition among industrialists."

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from demonstration, released March 5, 2017

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Solo project by ex a//political, machine gun congress, wretched of the earth, and aradia.

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