MCLC: Marx Got It Right (1)

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Marx Got It Right (1)
Marx is indeed still relevant in China.  R. D. Laing offered an elegant summary of his most pertinent doctrine:
Marx used the concept of mystification to mean a plausible misrepresentation of what is going on (process) or what is being done (praxis) in the service of the interests of one socioeconomic class (the exploiters) over or against another class (the exploited).
By representing forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence, the exploiters bemuse the exploited into feeling at one with their exploiters, or into feeling gratitude for what (unrealized by them) is their exploitation, and, not least, into feeling bad or mad even to think of rebellion.
A. E. Clark <aec at raggedbanner.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on May 9, 2018
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