The division of rewards between capital and labour seems to be growing ever-more skewed.
“Times of crisis are also times of great freedom,” wrote the French social philosopher André Gorz in 1983. “Our world is out of joint; societies are disintegrating, our lifelong hopes and values are crumbling. The future ceases to be a continuation of past trends. The meaning of present development is confused; the meaning of history suspended.” The words come at the start of Paths to Paradise , subtitled “On the Liberation From Work” and written as a concise manifesto for a new kind of leftism. Its […]
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