ABC's of Marxism: A is for Alienation
Up until the recent student protests, sociologists would moan about “apathetic youth”: they were “selfish” and “uninterested” in the world. How much of this was “apathy” and how much an understandable reaction to a world where mainstream politics seems boring and irrelevant? The student protests came at a point when the political world shifted with the election of a government more clearly hostile to students and the young. The shift brought a hammer down upon the heads of school and college students. They could no longer hide their contempt for the political system. Their alienation from...