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Where indigenous communities are supposedly superstitious and primitive, modern societies are supposedly driven by science and reason. Where community-based economies are purportedly based on love and friendship, capitalism is taken to be 'objective' and quantitative. These __binary oppositions have little to do with reality, and their function is mainly to legitimise and maintain hierarchies between groups with different attributes or resources.__
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad
Mehta presented figures on such things as the number of trains the government had run and the number of meals served on them. But there was no clarity about how many migrants were still stranded across the country, or how many were still walking home. There was also confusion about transport arrangements: would stranded migrants travel for free or be reimbursed—and if reimbursed, how and by whom?
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's Sway Over the Courts
caravanmagazine.in
the capitalist measure of value is inimical to the production of real social wealth, since it valorizes socially necessary labor time rather than socially available free time, requires unemployment as a structural feature, and has an inherent tendency toward destructive crises.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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