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Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar

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The Tension Between Private Property Ownership and Free Labor Ideals

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I see it more as a contradiction so if you're escaped from a racialized labor market is to become a self an entrepreneur or a property owner. And then how do we understand a major tension there that on the one hand self possession is required in order to alienate one's labor by selling it to the marketplace. So the contradiction in here is in the fact that of course private property ownership is not a path to freedom for for the owner or indeed for anybody else. But we can understand the the temptation and also the part of that that is surely I don't want to use the word true for some people but becomes a a lesser evil perhaps is the way is the best way to think

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