We tend to refer to the economy and labour as a series of numbers, statistics, flowcharts. Between
the 1980s and the 2010s, the GDP share in corporate profits gained 8 points, ie 120 billion euros per
year. This wealth ended up in profits instead of wages, resulting in income inequality having
widened enormously and workers' incomes plummeting. What humanity and what are the human
costs hidden behind the gap of a society in which the concept of work and value is based on social
accounting? To find an answer, Manlio Marinelli presents us a text which retraces the thought of
Karl Marx, specifically that of his early writings on philosophy and society, based on a polylogue that
explores the alienated and silently hurting humanity of contemporary society; that so-called liquid
society, which actually is, on the contrary, an oppressive swamp where the most terrible existential
butchery of the last fifty years is at play.
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