
From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
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The Expropriation of Capitalism
Capitalism always requires both expropriation and exploitation. When it takes the form of assigning those two, let's say, functions to two different populations, the result is racialization. A somatic regime depends upon human and animal bodies to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy. And a, for millennia, including in the early stages capitalism, that's what powered a production. Then you get this a very important moment, with the invention,. by wat of the steam engine, and the idea that you can actually convert chemical to mechanical ener outside of living bodies. You can do it in a machine, in an engine. That might get to your, your expropriation point that you are just
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