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Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields

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The Ideology of Racecraft

I think an important point in your book, you were both talking about this critical distance necessary to see racecraft for what it is. I can't quote from the German ideology or for that place it's born chapter four of chapter one section four of capital fetishism of the commodity and a secret thereof. But first thing I would say is read that and you will see the man coming to grips with the transformation of an ordinary object into something else through the social process of trade. And it's a a clouding of reality that you cannot see in the day-to-day process of whatever it is because it's not there to explain itself. It's there to operate on understandings of

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