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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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