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*Unlocked* – For a Political Theory of Insurance

This Machine Kills

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The Importance of Institutional Forms in Socialism

I want to abolish the existing order of insurance and destroy it. I think as leftist, we really get caught up in like the distribution of raincoats without them thinking about like the institutions that distribute the raincoats. The symbol for insurance is the umbrella because it's meant to be a form of protection. And so it's not just about the distribution of umbrellas, but about thinking about the institutions that distributed those umbrellas and the forms of those institutions.

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