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Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

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The Modern Economy Is a Despotism

The working men's parties, the first ones founded in 18 27 by william hayton. And then 18 and then a year later, thomas skidmore is the leader of the new york workingman's party. They see it as a pretty exquisite reproduction of domination, or the master slave relationship. So so long as everybody sets it up in a way that they participate in equally, in the making of the fundamental rules of the workplace you can have republican freedom in the work place even when you don't have individual proprietors. That was a common way of formulating the idea, and that radiates out in various ways to latin america and ireland.

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