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3 | Laclau and Mouffe, or How we learned to hate class and love Derrida

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is Everything Discoursed? Is It a Commodity?

Sorel: The one time they actually talk about marxist concepts, specifically, it's likein a two or three page critique of the idea of labor power. They're like, marxism has to establish a fiction, that is, that labor power is a commodity. And i'm like, that's not just a fiction. I don't o call how you can maintain that. Can i read you something else? This'll be my last paragraphs i read. But i highlighted all of this the first time i read this book and every time i come back, i get, like more into it. So there's this part of the book where they decide that their intervention

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