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the two core claims of the prisoner’s dilemma: (PD1) It is collectively rational to cooperate: each agent prefers the outcome produced by everyone cooperating over the outcome produced by no one doing so. (PD2) It is individually rational not to cooperate: when each agent has the power to decide whether or not she will cooperate, each (rationally) prefers not to do so, whatever the others do.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
Lenin saw that the workers’ spontaneity had specific strengths and potentials that the Social Democrats of the time needed to seize upon in their organizing. In the language of Vygotsky, we could say that the spontaneous consciousness of the workers was within a zone of proximal development for developing a stronger class consciousness and moving a socialist revolution into being.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
If – as this book argues – we are living through a generalised diminishing of désœuvrement – the becoming-work-like of things that weren’t work before – then one of the ironies is that it is taking place precisely alongside the dismantling of labour’s conventional locus: the profession or career.
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism
Mareile Pfannebecker; J. A. Smith
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