Alienation Quote by Joshua Clover

“Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first—solely intellectual and managerial—includes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants, educators, governmental…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed…

— Noam Chomsky

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to…

— Paulo Freire

The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical…

— Nancy Hartsock

Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between…

— Kenny Smith

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society.…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it…

— Michael Pollan

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice,…

— Noam Chomsky

The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as…

— Riane Eisler

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein