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an act of subsuming

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Markets, however, have an inherent tendency to expand beyond their original domain, the trading of material goods, to all other spheres of life, regardless of their suitability for commodification – or, in Marxian terms, for subsumption under the logic of capital accumulation

—p.61 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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a progressive subsumption of social life under the organizing principles of a capitalist economy is an inherent ever-present danger of life under capitalism that needs to be politically counteracted.

—p.202 How to Study Contemporary Capitalism? (201) by Wolfgang Streeck
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According to Wright, capitalism feeds off exploitation, which entails maintaining this concept at the heart of the analysis. Exploitation is a social relation distinct from domination, which cannot be subsumed under the latter.

—p.220 Class Against Class (206) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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the task of the critic is to subsume them into an atemporal frame of explanation

on the distinct units that compose the structure of narrative

—p.135 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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Marx’s fateful term, subsumption. Subsumption means turning heterogeneities into homogeneities, subsuming them under abstractions (which are by definition idealisms), standardizing the multiplicity of the world and making it into that terrible thing that was to have been avoided at all costs, namely the One as such.

—p.119 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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the real submission or ‘subsumption’ of labour-power: an existence for the workers which is wholly determined by the needs of capital

—p.101 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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