The worker’s alienation from his labor becomes the source of his cognitive strength
Evidence
Yet precisely in this terrible alienation lies the strength of the worker’s position: his first movement is not toward knowledge of the work but toward knowledge of himself as an object, toward self-consciousness. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 4319
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Industrialized labor destroys manual skill and familiarity with things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2307; The worker’s alienated self-objectification grants truer knowledge of commodities than bourgeois objectivity. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 379; Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 (+2 more)
Related
- Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it (similarity 0.86)
- The worker’s alienated self-objectification grants truer knowledge of commodities than bourgeois objectivity. (similarity 0.84)
- Mechanization sustains exploitation while shifting its form from muscular to mental exhaustion. (similarity 0.83)
- Industrialized labor destroys manual skill and familiarity with things (similarity 0.83)
- Mechanization is erasing the physiological basis of Marx’s proletarian concept (similarity 0.81)
- Taylorism deliberately breaks up skilled workers’ psycho-physical nexus (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it
#corroborates(0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 - Mechanization sustains exploitation while shifting its form from muscular to mental exhaustion.
#qualifies(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 169