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Neoliberalism Part 4: This is What Democracy Looks Like

It Could Happen Here

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The State Is the Corps of the State, Right?

There is nothing in the actual corps definition of a state, which is basically a hierarchical, but localized monopoly on violence. Whenever you get a large nea liberal administrationdt, ne, they double it, right? It basically doubles again. And one of the things that happens during this period is that labor increasingly stops being about making or doing anything and just becomes pure guard labor. One of the last big nelibra project that doesn't really get talked about as a ne libera project ever, is that mass incarceration is a nee liber project. The only job available to people who are picking up a gun and pointing it at someone who is exactly the same except with guns instead of

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