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Much of what free trade has brought about is what gets called “the race to the bottom,” the quest for the cheapest possible wages or agricultural production, with consequent losses on countless fronts. The argument is always that such moves make industry more profitable, but it would be more accurate to say that free trade concentrates profit away from workers and communities, for whom it is therefore far less profitable (and here the very term profit cries out for redefinition, for the stock market defines as profitable every kind of destruction and lacks terms for valuing cultures, diversities, or long-term wellbeing, let alone happiness, beauty, freedom, or justice).
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
I took a risk with my dissertation topic over 20 years ago, but today, I have a talk at Yale about the very topic. To all graduate students: study the thing that makes your heart beat, makes you angry, makes you question why it doesn't exist in the library.
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As we have seen, the contemporary literature – with its more developed terminology, more precise definitions, and more focused and systematic approach to the topic – only stretches back to the late 1970s. There are still many areas in prefigurativism that have yet to be better understood. One such area is the feminist, decolonial, and antiracist influences on prefigurative thought.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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