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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. The Indian became a redskin, not by loss in battle, but by accepting a dependence on traders that made necessities of industrial goods. This is not merely history. It is a parable.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
André Gorz, who was wrong on many things, was right about the reason why. Work – the defining activity of capitalism – is losing its centrality both to exploitation and resistance.
PostCapitalism
Paul Mason
My interest is not in the question of whether or not they needed the road, but in the fact that the road was then, and is now, the most characteristic form of their relation to the country.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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