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__‘The competition among workers is’, as Marx notes, ‘only another form of competition among capitals’__. Or, as Michael Lebowitz explains: ‘When workers compete among themselves, they press in the same direction as capital.’
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
But as in so many patriarchal social orders, men like to conceive of themselves as doing socially, or culturally, what they like to think of women as doing naturally. “Production” is thus simultaneously a variation on a male fantasy of childbirth, and of the action of a male Creator God who similarly created the entire universe through the sheer power of his mind and words, just as men see themselves as creating the world from their minds and brawn, and see that as the essence of “work,” leaving to women most of the actual labor of tidying and maintaining things to make this illusion possible.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Under capitalism, we cannot actually negotiate the fundamental questions of what we collectively value, since the purpose of our economy is beyond the power of democratic deliberation. We can make decisions regarding the distribution of our social wealth, but the final purpose of the production of our wealth (profit) is already decided. __If we are committed to achieving actual democracy, we must therefore be committed not only to the redistribution of wealth but also to the revaluation of the measure of value that shapes our production of wealth.__
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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