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69 | Mute Compulsion: Economic Power and Capitalist Domination w/ Dr. Søren Mau

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Relationship Between Vertical and Horizontal Relations in Capitalism

I don't think it makes sense to think of struggles as something that is either directed against one or the other of these two sets of relations. The market economy presuppose a class on tachanism put differently, he says. One of the ways to undermine the horizontal mechanisms of domination would be to abolish class and to re-appropriate the conditions of social reproduction so in that way I think that these two dimensions are at the level of political struggle too closely connected to separate them It doesn't really make sense  to speak up you know some struggle to say that some struggles are directed against the vertical dot uh relations uh nominations and and other struggles against the the horizontalIt's really helpful yeah I

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