The concept of the "isolated individual” is a construction of the bourgeois philosophy of individualism, and serves to conceal the social character which production always manifests. (Anthony Giddens)

The concept of the "isolated individual” is a construction of the bourgeois philosophy of individualism, and serves to conceal the social character which production always manifests.

Anthony Giddens

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