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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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7 years, 10 months ago

why Harambe went viral

Responding to highly mediated tragedies with insensitive pranking and irony had been a staple of online trolling cultures for many years before, but Harambe was the first case attracting such large numbers of people online wanting to get in on the in-joke. It went viral too, because it hit at a tim…

—p.6 Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right Introduction: From Hope to Harambe (1) by Angela Nagle
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the strategic sectors of the service economy today

The brilliant organizers of the cio understood that within the industrial economy of the mid-twentieth century, steel, coal, and other key industries mattered more than other industries. Within the service economy today, education and health care are the strategic sectors. For at least the next c…

—p.69 Rank and File Everything Old Is New Again (63) by Jane F. McAlevey
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leading us down the road to pauperism

Contingent workers, temporary workers, part-time workers, and the long-term unemployed — this whole group is expanding, leading us down the road to pauperism. Notwithstanding the deep crisis of legitimacy this is creating for capitalism, there’s nothing, no tendency within capitalism itself, to go …

—p.54 Workers of the World (45) by Beverly J. Silver
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Marx on surplus population

Well, Marx certainly didn’t view them as separate phenomena. In the first volume of Capital, he argued that the accumulation of capital went hand in hand with the accumulation of a surplus population — that wealth was being created through exploitation, but at the same time big chunks of the workin…

—p.48 Workers of the World (45) by Beverly J. Silver
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Larry Summers on unions

Writing in the Washington Post last September, the unimpeachably mainstream economist Larry Summers proclaimed, “We ... know that stronger unions are not just good for their members, they are good for our country and our descendants. Strengthening collective worker voice has to be an important comp…

—p.23 From Class to Special Interest (23) by Barry Eidlin