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054 - The Capitalocene, with Bob Neubauer, Part 2

General Intellect Unit

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The Importance of Metaphors in Marxism

He rejects what he calls like influential metaphors like ecological footprint and metabolic rift, which I think gets fosters, hackles up pretty bad and gets him mad. He says that communism did not overwhelm the developing tendencies of history reproduced through the long de ray of the capitalist world ecology. And at that scale, you know, I guess it's justifiable to say that 20th century communism had no appreciable effect on the trajectory of capitalism in or if it did, it just aggravated existing tendencies.

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