…on a larger scale. You know, a big theme in your book, you kind of resurrect, I wouldn't attribute it only to Karl Marx, but he certainly made it front and center in relation to labor and production, the notion of alienation. And because the U.S. model…

…for instance, saying, yeah, there is a class struggle where we, the rich, are destroying the poor. He goes further than Marx. You've got Stiglitz, who was in the Clinton administration, warning. We have plenty of enlightened, well, not plenty. We've got a…

…of some great people who've provided all kinds of alternatives. They're called the Buddha, they're called Jesus, they're called Karl Marx, they're called Eugene Debs, they're called, all kinds of Martin Luther King. Uh, they're called all kinds of, you know,…

…most stressful for people is uncertainty, lack of information, loss of control, and lack of opportunity to express yourself. When Karl Marx talked about freedom, he talked about freedom in three senses of the word. Freedom for him was, number one, freedom…

…on to their children. Alienation, which is a separation, being a stranger to something. And you're an alien to something. And Marx said there were four alienations in this culture. One is we're alienated from nature. At a conference dedicated to looking at…

…tremendous curiosity and interest and people wanting new ways of understanding their experience. So there's a dialectic between Karl Marx said that any society will eventually create its own contradictions will sharpen. And the contradictions are sharpening now.…

…Nazis are perfectly capable of behaving like that. So that the question is why? And not just why in intellectual sense, but Karl Marx said that the point is not just to understand the world, but to change it. So when you say stuff happens, my response…

…between myself and my deeper self, a barrier between myself and other people, and a barrier between myself and nature. Karl Marx said that alienation basically has four aspects. We're alienated from nature, We alienate it from our true selves. We alienate…

…understood why. And of course, Jimmy Reed's citation of alienation, being a labor leader, was probably rooted in his understanding of Marx from the 19th century, where Marx talked about alienation. And alienation is a good word as a theme for today, because…

…Reed's citation of alienation, being a labor leader, was probably rooted in his understanding of Marx from the 19th century, where Marx talked about alienation. And alienation is a good word as a theme for today, because what does it actually mean? Well,…

…how resistant to self-reflection they are. It's chronic, it's consistent. So no, self-reflection, in fact, you know what? It was Karl Marx who was a bit of a political activist, you'll agree with me. He said that self-reflection is the first condition of…

…our understanding of trauma now is infinitely better than it was 30, 40 years ago. And so this is just a bit of Marx, you know, Karl Marx said that every system will create its own conditions. And the antidote will develop within the system itself. So…

…trauma now is infinitely better than it was 30, 40 years ago. And so this is just a bit of Marx, you know, Karl Marx said that every system will create its own conditions. And the antidote will develop within the system itself. So just as it's getting…

…and then we step back into them. I think of that in the context of recovery. Yes. Let me read you a quote from Karl Marx, if I could. Please. And he says, the world has long dreamed of possessing something of which it has only to become conscious in…

…thought it. Sometimes I thought like, oh, you're dumb for loving me. Yeah, yeah, but that's the other side of it. It's like Garcho Marx said, that I wouldn't belong to a club that would have me as a member. So anybody who would love me, they can't be…