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the condition of its emancipation

Fixed capital, in its character as means of production, whose most adequate form [is] machinery, produces value, i.e. increases the value of the product, in only two respects: (1) in so far as it has value; i.e. is itself the product of labour, a certain quantity of labour in objectified form; (2) …

—p.59 #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader Fragment on Machines (51) by Karl Marx
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the central questions of accelerationism

However, as Marx observes (and as Deleuze and Guattari emphasise), capitalism continues to operate as if its necessary assumption were still the 'miserable' basis of 'the theft of labour time', even as the 'new foundation' of machine production provides 'the material conditions to blow this found…

—p.41 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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a ghost never dies

[...] Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost. They do no more than disavow the undeniable itse…

—p.123 Specters of Marx In the Name of the Revolution, the Double Barricade (Impure "impure impure history of ghosts") (118) by Jacques Derrida
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the heirs of Marx and Marxism

The responsibility, once again, would here be that of an heir. Whether they wish it or know it or not, all men and women, all over the earth, are today to a certain extent the heirs of Marx and Marxism. That is, as we were saying a moment ago, they are heirs of the absolute singularity of a project…

—p.113 Wears and Tears (Tableau of an ageless world) (96) by Jacques Derrida
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politicians become structurally incompetent

[...] However competent they may personally be, professional politicians who conform to the old model tend today to become structurally incompetent. The same media power accuses, produces, and amplifies at the same time this incompetence of traditional politicians: on the one hand, it takes awa…

—p.99 Wears and Tears (Tableau of an ageless world) (96) by Jacques Derrida