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41 | James Boggs and the Problem of Rights under Capitalism

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Moral Colony of the Problem

i feel thik bogg's point was, you probably didn't even have a right then. A right is something that if some one says, oh, we're going to take this away, bi, you don't have the power to take it away. This goes back to his critique o like, the unionism of the early twentieth century. He's like, first of allf we're talking about lik, social welfare or housing, or severance pay,. Unemployment benefits are produced by workers. They're going to tell you that they're making a concession. Let's not get it twisted. Workers are still producing that ship.

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