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Lauderdale argued that scarcity does not necessarily arise from the
exhaustion of natural resources. It is often intentionally created by constructing
gates and by forcefully expelling people from the land. In other words, __land,
water and food are artificially made scarce so that they can function to
augment the ‘private riches’ of their owners expressed in monetary terms (as ... well as the wealth of nation that comprises the sum total of individual riches).__
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito
This is what Young, following Hannah Arendt, calls a genuinely political responsibility (Young 2011): it is political because it requires that people exchange, entertain, and defend different views about their shared social conditions. __In disagreeing over role-ideals, then, one is engaging in politics. But one is doing so at the point where structure meets agency, such that the individual’s choice of how to perform that role contributes to the overall project of structural transformation.__
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
What politicians seek to avoid are any institutional changes that increase the number of people to whom they are beholden.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
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