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The peculiar thing about labour power as a commodity, however, is that, unlike most other commodities, it cannot be separated from its seller. When its buyer wants to realise its use value (i.e., consume it), it thus involves domination and the confiscation of a part of the seller’s life.4 In this manner, __the very equality of the seller and the buyer of labour power is the basis of their inequality as soon as they enter the sphere of production, where ‘the buyer takes command of the seller, to the extent that the latter himself enters into the buyer’s consumption process with his person as a worker’.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
What agents would choose in certain well-defined conditions of ignorance (in the “original position”) is, for Rawls, an important criterion for determining which conception of “justice” is normatively acceptable. __Why should we agree that choice under conditions of ignorance is a good criterion for deciding what kind of society we would wish to have?__
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
It was a bit like saying that the speed limit on this road is 60 kilometres per hours, so there are two speeds consistent with it: speeds up to 60 kilometres, and then also speeds up to 120, provided the drivers take a break after three or four hours. Or, the limit for allowed alcohol levels in your blood is 0.08 per cent, so you can have 0.08 when you drive or 0.2 if you make sure to sober up afterwards.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
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