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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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if the communist idea is essentially about equality

[...] If the communist idea is essentially about equality, the question then is how to understand the nature of an equality that accompanies a substantial, recognised inequality among contributors, and does not deny the asymmetry of those situations where the force of an initial proposition objecti…

—p.129 Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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how many capitalist enterprises would remain

The constitution of enterprising capitalist communities have had, so far, all the structures of the employment relation and the monetary economy with a division of labour in its favour. The question of how individuals enter into it is resolved rather simply: primarily under the effect of material n…

—p.127 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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vicissitudes

How will the lives of the enlistees in the enterprise turn out, will they be sad or joyful? That will be decided by the vicissitudes of the process of epithumogenesis.

—p.127 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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the very idea of employment

[...] Does not capitalism, in conceding that abolishing the hierarchy and giving free rein to initiative and collaboration are the real requisites of productive creativity, embark on the road to the free association of workers, impelled by its inherent tendency? If indeed the artist is a possible a…

—p.125 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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dialectic

brings back a dialectical figure we had believed lost: that of capitalism’s self-transcendence out of its own contradictions

—p.125 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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