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The fifth of Li's processes explicitly focuses on de-politicisation: restating political questions as matters of technique; closing down debate about how and what to govern and the distributive effects of particular arrangements by reference to expertise; and encouraging citizens to engage in debate while limiting the agenda.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

Capitalism introduces a historically unique insecurity at the most fundamental level of social reproduction, and for this reason the state has to assume the task of administering the life of the population. __Since the aim of capitalist production is the accumulation of wealth in its monetary form rather than the fulfilment of human needs, capitalist production frequently leads to the undermining of the life of the workers on whose lives it ultimately depends.__

Mute Compulsion

Søren Mau

In the South, Black parents—free and slave, and often risking death—pursued every opportunity to educate their children. Meanwhile, in the “enlightened” northern states, Black parents had to wage a determined struggle to secure equal access to the schools their tax dollars were building for white children.

Education and Capitalism

Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale

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