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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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contemporary capitalism is vanishing on its own

For the decline of capitalism to continue, that is to say, no revolutionary alternative is required, and certainly no masterplan of a better society displacing capitalism. Contemporary capitalism is vanishing on its own, collapsing from internal contradictions, and not least as a result of having v…

—p.13 How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System Introduction (1) by Wolfgang Streeck
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five previous escapes for capitalism

[...] Following in Marx’s footsteps, he lists five ‘escapes’ that have hitherto saved capitalism from self-destruction, and then proceeds to show why they won’t save it any more. They include the growth of new jobs and entire sectors compensating for employment losses caused by technological progre…

—p.10 Introduction (1) by Wolfgang Streeck
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converting fear into acceptance

[...] for the vast majority of its members, a capitalist society must manage to convert their ever-present fear of being cut out of the productive process, because of economic or technological restructuring, into acceptance of the highly unequal distribution of wealth and power generated by the cap…

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Wolfgang Streeck
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capitalism has always been an improbable social formation

Capitalism has always been an improbable social formation, full of conflicts and contradictions, therefore permanently unstable and in flux, and highly conditional on historically contingent and precarious supportive as well as constraining events and institutions. [...] Capitalism promises infinit…

—p.1 Introduction (1) by Wolfgang Streeck
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