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If the transnational companies wanted access to chinas labor force and infrastructure, then China demanded access to the technology and science behind production. pp.271
Torkil Lauesen - The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
In elite circles, we feel entitled to self-development because it’s available to us, and we focus on self-development and maximizing our skills because that’s what succeeds in elite jobs. But if your best hope for stability is a blue- or pink-collar job where you need to show up reliably without attitude to a job that’s often not intellectually... See more
The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Joan C. Williams
Work under capitalism alienated individuals from themselves since work is no longer a joy, but simply a means to earn wages to survive
Saul McLeod • Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of... See more
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
As long as elites empathize deeply with immigrants while judging and dismissing middle-status people’s pain, we won’t help immigrants.
Meagan Day • The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Proudhon: What is Property?
youtube.comThe right to product is exclusive, the right to means is common. Everything is really only borrowed.
In Western discourse, it is claimed that democracy and liberal market capitalism are linked together as conjoined twins. However, liberal capitalism thrives when linked with fascism, as we have seen in Nazi Ger-many, Franco's Spain, and Pinoche's Chile.
If the development of liberal democracy is linked to something, then it is linked to colonialism.
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On one side, capitalists hate the state as it interferes with the economic dispositions of capital; however, on the other side, capital needs the state to mitigate its contradictions and administer is expansion. pp. 281
Torkil Lauesen - The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism