Mind-Control Poems: The Symbolic Labor of Liberation, the Completion of Marx's Implicit Linguistics, and the Operative Semiotic Remedy — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law · FORCE Technology (Norway)
Abstract
This document completes a gap in Marx's early thought that has remained open for 180 years: the absence of a formal account of the alienation of language itself. Working from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology, the document identifies symbolic alienation — the estrangement of the human from the media of recognition, expression, and meaning-production — as the constitutive underlay that makes Marx's canonical alienations (from product, act, species-being, and fellow humans) reproducible across generations. The document traces the historical suppression of this dimension through the Marxist tradition, identifying Stalin's 1950 "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics" as the…
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- Semiotics
- Alienation
- The Symbolic
- Injustice
- Identity (music)
- Witness
- Capitalism
- German