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Capitalism with Michael Hardt

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The Theory of Co-Operation in the Capitalist Economy

The capitalist has to bring workers together in the work place, provided when the instruments, this is in the factory, and then also discipline them. Even though labor is still exploited, even though surplus is still taken by the capital, the circuits of co operation are instead constructed among workers themselves. In some ways it's the same kind of extraction that us to mine copper and coal. But it's really something different. It's our data, which is similarly thought to be there for the taking, you know, some that's free and open to all. And so if you recognize then, in this extractiv economy, thinking extraction in an expanded way, that's not only referring to mining or

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