Marx believed that capitalism, especially in its technofeudal phase, alienates individuals from their labor and products, creating isolated selves amid abundant technology.
The journey to the stage of Lauren Yee's new play, Mother Russia, has been a bit bumpy, with its opening delayed due to COVID-19 and mixed reactions in Seattle.
"The necessity and value of domestic labor was absent from [Adam Smith's] reflections on men acting in their own self-interest. The real invisible hands in Smith's accounting of the market remain conspicuously excluded."
Capitalism as we know it is dead. We're going to see a new kind of capitalism. If your orientation is just about making money, I don't think you're going to hang out very long as a CEO or a founder of a company.
The biggest problem we have in our culture is this perception that when you pursue your own self-interest, you are somehow a villain . . . it's why socialism is still viewed as morally noble, capitalism as evil and bad.