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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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primitive accumulation

So true is it that primitive accumulation is not produced just once at the dawn of capitalism, but is continually reproducing itself.

—p.151 The Civilized Capitalist Machine (147) by Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
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Manichaeism

capitalism itself was described in a Manichean manner: on one side the positive pole, the proletariat, the liberating class; on the other side the positive pole, capital

—p.146 Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity? (131) by Jacques Camatte
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nugatory

by making these rights nugatory on the one hand and by cutting away the spiritual foundations of them on the other hand

—p.103 The Machine Process and the Natural Decay of the Business Enterprise (91) by Thorstein Veblen
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ramified

Man no longer has a direct connection to production, but one that is mediated by a ramified, accumulated objective social apparatus

—p.39 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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exigent

Machine production follows directly from, maximally effects, and enters into synergy with capital's exigency to reduce the need for human labour and to continually increase levels of production.

—p.38 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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