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In a society based upon commodity exchange, everyone must follow the logic of exchange if he or she wants to survive. It is not merely the result of my “utility maximizing” behavior if I want to sell my own commodities dearly and buy other commodities cheaply. Rather, I have no other choice (unless I am so rich that I can choose to ignore exchange relationships). And since I am not capable of seeing an alternative, maybe I even perceive my own behavior as “natural.” When the majority behaves in the manner indicated, they also reproduce the social relations that commodity exchange is based upon, and therefore the compulsion for every individual to continue to behave accordingly.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
It is not only organisations that can be prefigurative; so too can broader organisational culture, social relations, and everyday practices.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
At the very same time as industrialists were dismantling the deposit system, thereby relieving themselves of reprocessing costs, and making structurally anti-ecological decisions, they started calling for ecological responsibility on the part of consumers. A typical case of two-faced morality, where you proclaim a standard that applies to everyone except yourself, and impose responsibility on others so as to relieve yourself of it.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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