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How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser

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Capitalism Is a Non Human Nature

Capitalism is seen as a repository of raw material stuff that we can just take, funnel into production and use up exhaust not worry about replenishing. The economy doesn't work without inputs from system of care, or social reproduction, from the system of nature, from the various political systems. And my proposal is that instead of interpreting capitalism as an economic we should see it as the name for something much bigger. I call it an institutionalized social order. Capitalism is something as big and on a par with feudalism.

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