You write that we need to theorize capitalism so that forms of dispossession, expropriation and rent figure not just as these things ht are exceptional to capitalism, but rather essentral to its real historical operation. And then at this moment, why is it that analyzing the relationship between nature and capitalism provides such a powerful tool to analyze the system as a whole? Sure. Well, here ultimately, its the battle for defining what capital ism mis and how extensive and how historical and how massives the finitian is allowed to be. It doesn't fit an ideal type, but that's what we've been living under. The more orthodox brenarian, terbinarian
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
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