The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Sociologist, philosopher

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Describing the alienation and loss of individual agency in modern, highly organized societies.

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