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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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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 property... See more
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
The social reality of capitalism is “totalizing” in unprecedented ways and degrees. Its logic of commodification, accumulation, profit-maximization, and competition permeates the whole social order; and an understanding of this “totalizing” system requires just the kind of “totalizing knowledge” that Marxism offers and postmodernists reject.
Monthly Review | The Necessity of a Universal Project
Patriotism
“Their state of mind [IWW] could only be explained by referring to it, as was earlier suggested, to its major relationships” - Parker, The Casual Laborer, pp.103
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
Anomie is used to indicate a set of phenomena whereby the norms of social structures enter into crisis following an extension of the division of labor
Olivia Guy-Evans • Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology
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 sti... See more
The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Joan C. Williams
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