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“The truly self-reliant person proves to be by no means as independent as cultural stereotypes suppose,” the psychologist John Bowlby observes; in adult life, a “healthily self-reliant person” is capable of depending on “others when occasion demands and to know on whom it is appropriate to rely.”
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
I fail to understand why it's a "perverse incentive" to give money to the poor to afford basic human necessities, but billions ₹₹/$$ subsidies & incentives to companies owned by rich ppl are not perverse & market distorting?
Tweets From Dr Soumitra Pathare সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா பாடாரே
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In seeking a subject capable of resisting the global postnational systems of power, a subject also capable of creative political self-determination, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt have adopted Spinoza’s notion of the “multitude.” In contrast to other types of collective subjects, such as the people, the masses, and the working class, the multitude does not possess internal coherence and has no clear boundaries; it is a complex subject “composed potentially of all the diverse figures of social production”
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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