8 | (Neo)colonialism and Anticolonialism
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Masking Dynamic of Capitalism
Yong: What makes it difficult for people to see problems as problems under capitalism? Like ellen wood writes about this, whereit's like, there is no society that has been able to mask these class relations so effectively. And even when people start to see them, they're pissed off. But articulating them as a set of class relations is almost like an ideal. It takes so much more to get people to see the structural inequality,. you know, most an that makes me think that part of the masking dynamic of capitalism is what happens around the world. Because capitalism universalizes and it globalizes ideologically, what does that mean for a political programme and how we argue with people
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