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when the state needs soldiers inspo/anti-capitalism

The politics of Wages for Housework was shaped by women who had an understanding of capitalism, imperialism, and the anti-colonial struggle. Thus we could not accept that women’s liberation could be a struggle for “equality with men” or that it could be limited to equal pay for equal work. We saw …

Boston Review Every Woman Is a Working Woman by Silvia Federici
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a reality which seems all- powerful and overwhelming

[...] domination is itself objectively divisive. It maintains the oppressed I in a position of "adhesion" to a reality which seems allpowerful and overwhelming, and then alienates by presenting myste­ rious forces to explain this power. Part of the oppressed / is located in the reality to which i…

—p.146 Pedagogy of the Oppressed Chapter 4 (98) by Paulo Freire
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the status quo has been good for the country inspo/anti-capitalism

You are part of the leadership of a popular movement that has just seized power in your country. Your commitment is not to bourgeois nationalism, but to socialism. You are from a country that had been under colonial rule and then neo-colonial subordination or else from a country that was not formal…

Tricontinental With Samir Amin By Our Side by Vijay Prashad
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workers can and will adapt

Warehouse workers have the capacity to make history, but not as they please--the circumstances inherited require innovation and novel forms of organizing and resistance. The obstacles to organizing posed by capital mobility, automation, political/legal uncertainty and the sheer structural power of …

—p.92 Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain “Work Hard, Make History”: Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California’s Warehouse and Distribution Industry (81) by Ellen Reese, Jason Struna
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behind possession of any sort: dispossession topic/meritocracy

[...] The lineage of the control and ownership of land traced back invariably to violence. Behind possession of any sort: dispossession. Today's notion that wealth testified and attached to merit - to the quality of ideas and tenacity of labor - made an attractive but thin veneer on the true stor…

—p.178 Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 Country & Eastern (174) by Greg Jackson