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Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquitous.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
When the bourgeoisie was still struggling against the nobility backed by the clergy, they advocated free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, they changed their tune and manner and today use religion to support their economic and political control and power.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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