The Relationship Between Wage Labor Property and Subjectivity

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Being an owner and having the capacity to appropriate have long been considered prerequisites for attaining the status of modern law, a fully individuated citizen subject. It turns out in other words that the political liberalism is deeply historically embedded in capitalist and colonial social relations. So I think we can understand that relationship as very much a kind of oppressive disciplining force that is core to the constitution of the modern legal subject.

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