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Summary: Riech rings truer as each day passes
Review: This text is a comprehensive mapping of the mechanisms of the corporate state used to subdue citizens. Reich basically argues (quite convincingly) that modern capitalist society reduces people to functions, thus our whole life is measured by how well we can become a function for the system. He analyses key areas such as labor, education, law, philosophy etc.In a sense I would say Reich is detailing the institutional control that Herbet Marcuse talks of in his book Eros and Civilisation. As a second year arts/law student this book has given me a definite insight into the reality of the system which I am reluctantly partaking, an insight which makes it seem all the more repugnant. One warning, Reich required the reader to use their own analytical skills to apply his discourse to society, so if you are a person who needs hundreds of examples for each notion raised as you can not visualise them yourself, don't buy this book. Otherwise, its a fine text.
Rating:
Summary: Riech rings truer as each day passes
Review: This text is a comprehensive mapping of the mechanisms of the corporate state used to subdue citizens. Reich basically argues (quite convincingly) that modern capitalist society reduces people to functions, thus our whole life is measured by how well we can become a function for the system. He analyses key areas such as labor, education, law, philosophy etc. In a sense I would say Reich is detailing the institutional control that Herbet Marcuse talks of in his book Eros and Civilisation. As a second year arts/law student this book has given me a definite insight into the reality of the system which I am reluctantly partaking, an insight which makes it seem all the more repugnant. One warning, Reich required the reader to use their own analytical skills to apply his discourse to society, so if you are a person who needs hundreds of examples for each notion raised as you can not visualise them yourself, don't buy this book. Otherwise, its a fine text.
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