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Though industrialization sets free mankind in mental and manual labor to some extent, it also brings about spiritual degeneration. As a part of nature itself, human in the industrialized society is confronted with value nihilism.
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“…material production and consumption”: Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology, New York: Harper and Row, 1968, p. 1.
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“…deprived of thoughts and feelings”: Ibid, p. 28.
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“In The Art of Fiction”: Milan Kundera, The Art of Fiction, Joint Publishing Company, 1993, p. 149.
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“…belongs to this world”: Martin Heidegger, Selected Works of Martin Heidegger, Volume II, Shanghai: Joint Publishing Company, 1996, p. 937.
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“…the enslaved state”: Herbert Marcuse, “The New Forms of Control”, “One Dimensional Man”, The Frankfurt School, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1981, p. 110.
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“…as the soul of their lives”: Ibid, p. 113.
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“…with spiritual food”: Herbert Marcuse, “Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society”, Philosophical Translation, June, 1978, p. 20.
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“…annihilates the globe”: Ibid, p. 22.
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“…expanded enslavement”: Herbert Marcuse, “The Leftists under Reactionary Rule”, quoted from Introduction to Contemporary Western Philosophy, Wang Shouchang & Che Mingzhou, Commercial Press, 1983, p. 257.
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“…becoming a robot”: Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, Taiwan Zhi Wen Publishing House, 1975, p. 91.
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“…has to submit to”: Ibid, p. 102.
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“…refer to myself as ‘I’”: Ibid, p. 101, 110.
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“…Franklin-style capitalistic spirit”: Max Weber, Protestant Ethics and Capitalist Spirit, New York: Charles Scribner’s Press, 1958, pp. 48–52.
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“…violent behaviors”: Daniel Bell, “Sociodicy: A Guide to Modern Usage”, American Scholar, Autumn, 1966, p. 712.
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“…gets bogged down”: She Zhengrong, On Ecological Wisdom, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 1996, p. 189.
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Xin, Q. (2019). Human Joys and Sorrows in the Process of Industrialization. In: A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9973-2_2
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