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How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser

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The Freedom of the Worker Depends on the Subjection of the Expropriated

Racism is a result of the contradictions between, i guess, what yo would describe as the political and economic spheres of liberal capitalism. You have liberal democracy, proclaiming liberty in some sort of equality for all, but you have this economy that's obviously brutally unequal with the expropriated labor of african slaves. And then so racism is a sort of provisional solution to this contradictionT is a contradiction, i would say, in that unlike feudalism and other forms of ancient slave society, say, capitalism really depends on the idea that workers are freein viduals.

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