The Preemption of the State

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I think that the desire for personal profit is analogous to and bound up with the interests of the colonial settler state. It really is part of the same scene of preemption I was speaking about earlier, where the state relies on immigrant settlers who want to amass profit and accumulate capital. So I think those two things are really, they really go hand in hand.

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