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Novara FM: The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism w/ Søren Mau

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The Vertical and Horizontal Relations of Capitalism

There's a structuralness to failure. You have to necessarily, a huge amount of people have to fail. Yeah. So you have these concepts which take from Robert Brenner, the horizontal and the vertical relations. Can you tell me about what those are, and how exactly they mutually reinforce each other? Yes. Well, so one way to explain it is to say that capitalism is defined by two sets of social relations. One is,. on the one hand, the vertical class relations between capitalists and pro-letarians; also relationship between capitals who compete against each other. It's crucial to see how these two sets of relations mediate each other in order to understand how the power of capital

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