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    Pure objective alienation does not generate social conflict. — Carmelics
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    Pure objective alienation does not generate social conflict.

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    • 1.Social conflict requires agents who feel or experience some form of hostility or rebelliousness towards existing social arrangements.
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    • 2.In a situation of pure objective alienation, individuals do not feel hostility or rebelliousness towards existing social arrangements.
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    • 1.Structural contradictions between classes can generate material conflict independently of subjective awareness, as Marx argues in Capital vol. 1.
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    • 2.Competition over scarce resources, wage suppression, and exploitation produce strikes and unrest even when workers lack class consciousness.
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    • 3.Therefore, objective alienation—the worker's separation from the product, process, and species-being—can cause social conflict without subjective hostility.
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    • 1.Bourdieu's concept of misrecognition shows agents can reproduce conflict-generating structures while misidentifying their own interests and grievances.
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    • 2.Social conflict can be latent or structural—manifest in institutional breakdown, crime, or withdrawal—without requiring felt rebelliousness as Dahrendorf's conflict theory demonstrates.
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    Situation (ii) consists of a social world containing objective, but not subjective, alienation – a situation that can be characterised as one of ‘pure objective alienation’ (Hardimon 1994: 120). It is perhaps not too much of a stretch to think of this situation as corresponding, very roughly, to one of the Frankfurt School’s more nightmarish visions of contemporary capitalist society. (The Frankfurt School is the colloquial label given to several generations of philosophers and social theorists,
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