The funniest thing about this article is what it says about worker alienation in Marxist theory. It says worker alienation depends on how well workers are treat

The funniest thing about this article is what it says about worker alienation in Marxist theory. It says worker alienation depends on how well workers are treated by their bosses. But that’s simply not what the theory says. Marxist theory as best as I understand refers to worker alienation from the products of their own labor due to capitalist ownership of the means of production. It is the lack of worker ownership of the means of production that produces alienation, not how well they are treated. There are of course other meanings of of the word alienation, but the article states in one paragraph that Graeber was right about worker alienation as an aspect of Marxist theory, and then in the very next sentence says worker alienation depends on how workers are treated by their bosses. From my understanding of one of the basics of Marxist theory, that’s not what the theory says.