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sumptuary

the passing of trade and sumptuary laws that would cause commodities that were common one day to become scarce the next and vice versa

—p.97 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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capital necessarily produces crises

Capital expands endlessly and inevitably seeks to bring more and more aspects of the world into its orbit, but it also necessarily produces crises, first nad foremost for its exploited creators, proletarians, whose own reproduction is reduced to the barest minimum, and sometimes less than that. As …

—p.95 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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doxa

takes as doxa that liberal democratic states are less warlike

—p.93 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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apogee

the free market represents the apogee of the Enlightenment

—p.92 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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paeans

a bullyboy paean to "the West" as the seat of progress in an otherwise dark world.

—p.92 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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