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“ In the pages of Capital Marx whispers that there is a second world sunk in this one… . Rather than
the ‘economy’ presented in the form of plain facts that can be aggregated and processed through simple empiricism, we find self-reflexive social dynamics difficult to grasp precisely because our attempt to understand them is both constituted by and helps to constitute them as social forces.”
— Mar 12, 2026 01:32PM
the ‘economy’ presented in the form of plain facts that can be aggregated and processed through simple empiricism, we find self-reflexive social dynamics difficult to grasp precisely because our attempt to understand them is both constituted by and helps to constitute them as social forces.”
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“Capital is horror that is nearly indescribable not because it is too complex to grasp or too occluded by ideology, but precisely because it is so overbearingly sensible that we feel it everywhere, as the expanding hellworld in which we are encased. Again, Marx himself described
capital as an ‘alien mediator’ that operates as an ‘entity outside man and above man’ and thereby becomes a sort of real God”
— Feb 25, 2026 07:05AM
capital as an ‘alien mediator’ that operates as an ‘entity outside man and above man’ and thereby becomes a sort of real God”
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Someone educate me, but I really don’t see any way to rebuild working class politics by increasing union density when even in China, the “workshop of the world”, workers are constantly being replaced via automation or factory relocation to even lower wage regions within the country or externally to Vietnam, Bangladesh, or Cambodia.
— Feb 21, 2026 01:57PM
