Sublime

I am a leftist focused on capital’s ravaging of our bodies, our democratic structures, and the living systems that support our collective existence.

what the media was calling “globalization” had almost nothing to do with the effacement of borders and the free movement of people, products, and ideas. It was really about trapping increasingly large parts of the world’s population behind highly militarized national borders within which social protections could be systematically withdrawn, creatin

In this way, Taylorism rendered labor more abstract and fungible, hastening a process that has often been referred to as “de-skilling.”

an achievement-subject nonetheless “wears down in a rat race it runs against itself”: “The disappearance of domination does not entail freedom. Instead, it makes freedom and constraint coincide. Thus, the achievement-subject gives itself over to compulsive freedom—that is, to the free constraint of maximizing achievement. Excess work and performanc

When we first embarked on this book, our intention was to seek new answers to questions about the origins of social inequality.

“an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty” powered by machines capable of “reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price.”**

The possibility of a sense of accomplishment in some end product of one’s work became less and less tenable in large factory conditions.

Nature of the Universe (TANSTAAFL)