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Because they fail to account for multi-faceted defining influences, marxist categories insufficiently explain even the economy, feminist categories insufficiently explain even gender, nationalist categories insufficiently explain even culture, and anarchist categories insufficiently explain even the state. All these foci are certainly necessary, but to use them optimally we need to develop a new orientation that allows us to embody refined versions of each primary framework in a new whole.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
Morozov has called this private-sector technophilia “solutionism”: an ideology that recasts “all complex social situations either as neatly defined problems with definite, computable solutions or as transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized.”
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John Patrick Leary
PPP revisions are well known for discriminating against poor people. PPP moves relative to the price of consumer goods across whole economies. But people __living at national poverty lines do not consume such a broad range of goods; on the contrary, they spend around 70 per cent of their income on food.__ And it just so happens that the price of food has gone up dramatically since PPP was last revised in 2005, relative to the prices of everything else, which means that while most people are able to buy more with their dollars, poor people are actually able to buy less.
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