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Redistributive reforms can certainly be a helpful means for political change under capitalism. But even in order to understand the substantial challenges that our redistributive reforms will encounter—and to conceive our political strategies in relation to those challenges—we need to grasp the contradictions that are inherent in the capitalist production of wealth.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
Given the fierce debates among Marxists and other leftists about identity politics and intersectionality, __the very act of bringing our whole selves to our political work, and vice versa, is at once a radical act and an unremarkable one: radical, because it requires us to complicate how we understand the lived realities of class under capitalism; and unremarkable, because the simple reality has been that we all live our lives intersectionally__—something radical Black feminists (including the Combahee River Collective), among others, have been telling us for quite some time.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
Teachers are now put under intolerable pressure to mediate between the post-literate subjectivity of the late capitalist consumer and the demands of the disciplinary regime (to pass examinations etc). This is one way in which education, far from being in some ivory tower safely inured from the ‘real world’, is the engine room of the reproduction of social reality, directly confronting the inconsistencies of the capitalist social field.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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