Marx’s Concept of Man — Alienation, Labor, and Human Emancipation (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Marx’s Concept of Man by Erich Fromm as a systems-level analysis of alienation, labor, and the loss of human agency under modern economic structures.
By focusing on Marx’s early writings, the book reveals how economic systems come to dominate human life, turning creativity into a commodity and treating abstract forces as inevitable. Fromm’s analysis helps explain why material progress so often fails to produce genuine freedom or fulfillment.
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