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Michael Hardt - Empire, 20 Years On

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Rise of the Rentier Economy

I'm kind of curious to see, I don't know, how that will develop because it feels like Uber, like all these kind of gig economies that are going to start to fold. Like what's going to happen to labor, you know, there seems to be sort of crisis building depending on how that shakes out over the next few years. It is interesting though that, as you already pointed out an empire, but as Marx also pointed out capitalism and empire seem to thrive off of these crises right rather than necessarily see them as an obstacle. One of the things that I appreciated was this notion of the proletarian movement, the revolutionary class, whatever you want to call it, these struggles have

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