Journalution

To call men and women simply “workers” or “capitalists” is to bury their unique individuality beneath a faceless category. But it is an alienation that can be undone only from the inside. Only by going all the way through class, accepting it as an unavoidable social reality than wishing it piously away, can it be dismantled. It is just the same with race and gender. It is not enough to treat every individual as unique, as with those American liberals for whom everyone (including, presumably, Donald Trump and the Boston Strangler) is “special.” The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition for their emancipation. —from Why Marx was Right by Terry Eagleton