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How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser

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The Expropriation of the Environment

The idea e, if we just start by thinking for a moment about energy, and howa capitalist production, all production, relies on energy. A somatic regime depends upon human and animal bodies to convert solar en chemical energy into mechanical energy,. And then to use that to labor. For millennia, including in the early stages of capital, that's what powered a production. Then you get thisa very important moment, with the invention, by what, of the steam engine. The idea that you can actually convert chemical to mechanical energyot side of living bodies, you can do it in a machine, in an engine. This is a total game changer; you can liberate yourself from

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