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Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
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The Disassociation of the Working Class From Citizenship in Singapore and Dubai
In places like Singapore and Dubai, what we see is the disassociation of a nation's working classes. How does this form of excluding migrant working classes from citizenship compare to prior historical periods earlier in capitalism's development when the entire working class was simply excluded from citizenship? The only way you can kind of do that now is by ensuring that roughly the same amount of the population that would previously have been enfranchised under a more narrow franchise is a citizen and everyone else is simply a non-citizen. But the effect is the same and intentionally so.
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