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If we are only fighting for equal opportunity—to eliminate discrimination and level the playing field—we will still end up with a huge concentration of wealth and power in the ruling class and not enough resources for the rest of us to meet our needs. We need to engage in battles against specific kinds of exploitation, exclusion, marginalization, discrimination, and violence while simultaneously engaging in a longer-term struggle for a redistribution of wealth and power.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
For Moran, ‘The claim is not that people’s “identities” came to matter more in late capitalism, but that capitalism itself came to operate as a new and key mechanism for constructing and experiencing a sense of self, and its relation to others’ (2015: 4). To put this another way, capitalism and the subjectivisation (i.e. the constitution of individuals as subjective entities) it implies, work to create particular identities: capitalism has created a world in which human beings are both capable of and expected to possess an identity. And it is in this sense that the self is extended through consumption.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
The infantile tendency is surely a reaction to the age of liberation. It is a common mistake to assume that liberation is in itself enough for fulfilment, that everything will be fine if one can just escape the soul-destroying job, oppressive relationship, dreary town. But it turns out that freedom does not lead automatically to fulfilment. Instead, freedom leads to unremitting hard work.
The Age of Absurdity
Michael Foley
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