32 | What is Equality? Disagreeing with Jacques Rancière
What's Left of Philosophy
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The History of Workers' Struggles by the Poor
Rossier's work on the history of worker struggles is really important for understanding how this principle of equality, this principle of Equality functions. Not just screaming out in pain and saying, I'm hungry, I want more. Rossier was so interested in the fact that like workers in 19th century struggles would like put on plays and they would actually organize like theatrical spectacles. And you know, resisting this representation of revolutionary struggles by the poor as somehow being like just irrational mobs like screaming for a bigger piece of the pie.
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