id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-191990	Ollman, Bertell	Exerpts from "How to Take an Exam . . . and Remake the World"	2019	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5953	239	60	In his discussion of alienation, this is brought out by focusing on four relations that lie at the heart of the work experience in our society: 1) the relation between the individual and his/her productive activity, in which others determine how it is done, under what conditions, at what speed, and for what wage or salary, and even if and when it is to begin and end; 2) the relation between the individual and the product of that activity, in which others control and use the product for their own purposes (making something does not confer any right to use what one has made); 3) the relation between the individual and other people, particularly with those who control both one's productive activity and its products, where each side pursues their own interests without considering the effect of their actions on the other (mutual indifference and competition becomes the characteristic forms of human interaction); and 4) the relation between the individual and the species, or with what it means to be a human being. The two mysteries with which we began--people's feelings of isolation and powerlessness and the extraordinary power of money--are easily resolved once we recognize they make up two sides of the same phenomenon, which is but the alienated life process of capitalist society.	cache/clogic-191990.pdf	txt/clogic-191990.txt