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“The situation of the family in post-Fordist capitalism is contradictory, in precisely the way that traditional Marxism expected: capitalism requires the family (as an essential means of reproducing and caring for labor power; as a salve for the psychic wounds inflicted by anarchic social-economic conditions), even as it undermines it (denying parents time with children, putting intolerable stress on couples…).

“The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, mean that capitalism is by its very nature opposed to any notion of sustainability.”

“ É precisamente esse desinvestimento subjetivo nas tarefas cotidianas que permite aos trabalhadores continuarem a realizar um trabalho sem sentido e desmoralizante.”

Estos filósofos presentaron descripciones de los sujetos democráticos dispuestos a soportar la tiranía política o el autoritarismo precisamente porque están insertos en un dominio que les provee distintas opciones en el plano de la satisfacción de necesidades y que erróneamente identifican con la libertad