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At New Almaden we can see the steps in the proletarianization dance: the alienation of indigenous and peasant populations from the land, the formal establishment of white racial rule, scientific management continually optimizing for maximum profits, looming soldiers. It all adds up to a laboring class with no legal way to reproduce their lives exce

Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.

Settler colonialists seized and enclosed agricultural lands around the world, forcing peasant and indigenous communities into capitalist work, whether waged, enslaved, or (most prevalent) somewhere desperate in between.

propagation of the species and are not destined for anything else,” Jordan declared in one of his evolution lectures, quoting the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “they live, as a rule, more for the species than for the individual, and in their hearts take the affairs of the species more seriously than those of the individual.”27

What haunts are the kinds of large historical crimes that, once committed, can never truly be set right.

The genius study was a story, and many powerful people worked hard to make it come true.

After all, the only way for Stanford to have height records for its incoming freshmen was to ask on the application, which the school did into the 1980s.

They wanted to sell as much as possible at as high a price as possible. But if all the producers in a marketplace try to grow and harvest as much as possible, they will oversupply the market, tank the price, and kill their profits. If a group of producers agree to restrain output in order to maintain a profitable level of scarcity, on the other han

mutualistic relationship of belonging between humans and the rest of the ecology.