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22 days agoJesus, this writer is dense.
Honestly, I never personally thought of this show as an explicitly Marxist critique of capitalism, but the way this article hyper-focuses on profit being an absent detail of the show makes me think they just don’t know what Marxism is. I don’t think there could be a clearer allegory of alienation of labor than the severance procedure.
I guess if that’s what you think Marxism is, fine. If Lumon having near total control over the lives of its workers isn’t a critique of class relations under capitalism, I don’t know what would be.
Others have already weighed in, but:
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