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Subversive Mobility vs Academic Orthodoxy with Jacob Shell

Outsider Theory

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The Struggle Against Capitalism Has Now Become the Struggling to Preserve Life

The strugge, the struggle against capitalism, has now become the struggle to preserve life m from billionaires who just want everyone to die. I mean, that's actually what ii think. The desire to be relevant to that started around when i was in grad school. And so there was a desire to kind of fixate upon certain things that mark says aboutcapitalism as like a metabolism and anything you can seize upon. But once you start to repostulate the ideas in that way, you sort of tend to lose conceptual touch with actual working people,. Things become more about these abstractions like life. It wasn't really that surprising to me that, like, the number one priority to

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