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got me jumping up and down saying EXACTLY

brilliant and getting better, historically situated and emotionally impactful

chapter 12 most important chapter

funny number

makes me so sad lmao

the nature of production has not changed, the English textile factories of the early industrial revolution have not disappeared, it just got moved to Bangladesh.

through the significant portion of contributions of trans-national corporations to tax revenues in Global North nations, imperial core nation social democracies are directly subsidised by exploitation in the peripheries.

finally getting back to this now that some due dates are done, and my god did A Mother’s Work make me cry, and laugh, every single paragraph. This is setting up to be the best book I’ve read this year.

“Primitive accumulation has been a universal process in every phase of capitalist development[…] relaunched in the face of every major capitalist crisis, serving to cheapen the cost of labor and to hide the exploitation of women and colonial subjects.

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capitalism must justify and mystify the contradictions built into its social relations by denigrating the nature of those it exploits.”

“Now, when the red leaves are all down and the geese are gone, I go looking for witch hazel.”

brother i am crying in the liberry

Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness. One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment.

Suck and Foot binding chapters gave me epiphanies, but I’ve been informed androgyny chapters get wacky so I’m bracing myself

(…(continued from before bcs apparently these updates have a character count)) The urgency with which this Prologue begins taps into something deep and continually arising out of me. I think this book will help me very much.

I got the sudden urge to start reading this book amidst a flurry of certain strands of conversations — the contingency and manufactured nature of our disconnected relations with food, the utter materially-manifested oppression in ontology as woman, the permeation of accumulative imperatives in “solutions to climate change” —, conversations that all invariably center around alienation, capitalism. (…)

love the unconventional non-flow in this, not a slave to structure