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121: Conspirituality and Anti-Wokeness, with Matthew Remski

I Don't Speak German

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Marx's Marxist Analysis of Capitalism

Mark O'Mara: One of the things that Marx finds most obnoxious about bourgeois society or the bourgeois mode of production is that it subjects society to the rule of abstractions. And I think that's always been there in capitalism. He says we are ruled literally our day and our time and our life is ruled by the need to do socially necessary labor, which is not necessary for society. "I'm watching an economy in which you can't really achieve the aspirational self unless you perform a certain type of physical virtue," he says.

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