• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
      303·
      3 years ago

      I’ve always interpreted Marx’s concepts of alienation as talking about mental health issues. More recently people have definitely began to link the material conditions of capitalism with mental health issues, although a specifically Marxist writing on the topic doesn’t spring to mind right now. It’s also clear to me, both from lived experience as well as various things I’ve read, that dealing with this alienation labour is almost entirely the same as dealing with common mental health issues such as depression/anxiety, loneliness, and the existential question of what the purpose of my life is.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 years ago

        For those that need to look it up like I did…

        The theoretical basis of alienation is that a worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the directo inr 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. —Wikipedia

    • LoveSausage@lemmygrad.mlOP
      61·
      3 years ago

      Since very good answers already been done I just go with an anecdote from a therapist. Therapy is good but money really makes a difference…

    • vlad
      315·
      3 years ago

      I’m fairly certain that their view was “get over it”.

      • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
        141·
        3 years ago

        nice argument senator, why don’t you back it up with a source?

        my source is that I made it the fuck up!

        • vlad
          312·
          3 years ago

          No, you fuck off.

          For the dumb: Back around the time of Marx, people had two solutions for mental health. Either go to church, or get over it. No reason to assume he though differently.

            • vlad
              312·
              3 years ago

              Well, I’m probably only good for manual labor. So let’s make a facility where you can put everyone who isn’t good for anything else and make them work. Since people like me won’t come voluntarily you’ll have to create an armed force that can take me there against my will. That’s ok though, because it’s for the good of all of the “good” people.

          • Sunforged@lemmy.world
            21·
            3 years ago

            No reason to assume he though differently.

            No reason except for all his writings about the solutions to alienation.

            What a moronic take dude.