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On Cannibals and Capitalists | Nancy Fraser & Gargi Bhattacharyya

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The Shadow of Abandonment in Capitalism

Gargy: I'm wondering how we might figure that into our account of this race making if we indeed do. Well I think that's partly what the true horror of our moment is isn't it and that's how I hear Nancy's take up of the term cannibal capitalism. The idea of abandonment to death is now built in as explicitly the survival mechanism that capital imagines for itself, Gargy says. He also thinks that the divide between who is exploitable and who is expropriable perhaps is passing before our eyes.

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