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How is it that small, poorly funded militant groups, overworked and always on the verge of burnout, could represent a menace for economic empires with incomparable resources? The answer of these analysts was that their trump card, with its many knock-on effects, lay in their ‘ability to mobilise legitimacy’26 – something that the firms on the other side cruelly lacked.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
The revaluation of value discloses that socially available free time—rather than socially necessary labor time—is the real measure of our wealth. Given the revaluation of value, we can strive to “reduce the necessary labor of society to a minimum,” instead of “reducing the necessary labor time in order to posit surplus labor” (as we do under capitalism).
This Life
Martin Hägglund
In my view, if political philosophy wishes to be at all connected with a serious understanding of politics, and thus to become an effective source of orientation or a guide to action, it needs to return from the present reactionary forms of neo-Kantianism to something like the “realist” view, or, to put it slightly differently, to neo-Leninism.
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
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