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Pill Pod 119 - Bernard Stiegler & Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Outmodedness of the Consumerist Model of Capitalism

The consumerist model of capitalism is no longer relevant and one and all these stimulus packages serve to do is like keep a zombie. The rolling right it keeps the status quo which has become completely, you know Not fit to what's happening anymore. So he calls this mafia capitalism when the government Doing these bailouts doing these stimulus packages is now just an arm of the market as opposed to vice versa. He went through the decline of the proletariat through becoming only consumers and producers. There's no owner class at all even even Jeff Bezos is Proletarianized because there are no entrepreneurs in the capitalist economy anymore.

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