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scrambling what used to be a sharper distinction

[...] it's not that production has disappeared, but the geography of financialised capitalism is very different from the geography of those previous capitalisms. A huge amount of manufacturing is now located in the global South, in the so-called BRICS.

Those parts of the world used to be the hun…

—p.160 IPPR Progressive Review 25(2) Understanding capitalism (154) by Ann Pettifor, Nancy Fraser
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capitalism is not an economy

[...] they tended to reduce capitalism to the narrow idea of an economic system [...] capitalism is not an economy. It is something much bigger.

Think of it as something that would be as big as, say, feudalism. It's not about one sector of society, it's about how all the different sectors fit to…

—p.158 Understanding capitalism (154) by Ann Pettifor, Nancy Fraser
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left Hegelianism

[...] an intellectual circles that pays certain lip service to the ideals of Frankfurt School, interdisciplinary quasi-Marxian inquiry, that is actually more and more doing what I call 'freestanding moral and political and legal philosophy'. As if you could talk about morality, politics and law wit…

—p.157 Understanding capitalism (154) by Nancy Fraser
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fictional expectations

[...] modern capitalism is always a space of fictions and myths. As explored by the German sociologist Jens Beckert, commercial activity is constantly reliant on what he terms 'fictional expectations' - that debts will be paid, business plans realised, consumers be satisfied, all in line with certa…

—p.151 Imagining real world utopias (149) by William Davies
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making tomorrow's battles winnable

The much used word "strategy" is not understood as the step-by-step removal of constraints (administrative, political, economic) so as to make an insoluble problem soluble. There is a confusion between winning today's battles, which is one thing and making tomorrow's battles winnable, which is quit…

—p.146 There is no alternative: Strategies for economic transformation (137) missing author