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The exploration of the earth and the invention of new technologies cannot
repair the rift. The rift remains ‘irreparable’ in capitalism. This is because
capital attempts to overcome rifts without recognizing its own absolute limits,
which it cannot do. Instead, it simply attempts to relativize the absolute. This
is what Marx meant when he wrote ‘every limit appears a barrier to overcome’
(Grundrisse: 408).
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito
we know that aid works much better in the presence of good governance (just as we know that more often than not it goes to places with bad governance).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
In isolation, acts of ‘forgetting’ appear trivial, but taken together they can create durable matrices of silence; powerful non-utterances that impede people from asking tough questions about wealth concentration and corporate power in today’s capitalist economies.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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