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The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)

The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)

The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)

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primitive accumulation (en)

a economic theory relating to the origin of capital (Adam Smith saw it as a peaceful process with natural imbalances in wealth distribution; Karl Marx saw it as a violent enclosure of the commons etc etc)

29

capitalism once again began to rely [...] on forms of accumulation by dispossession [...] that Marx once identified as typical forms of what he called 'primitive accumulation'. The commodification of labour, land and money

—p.29 Progressive and regressive politics in late neoliberalism (26) by Donatella della Porta
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capitalism once again began to rely [...] on forms of accumulation by dispossession [...] that Marx once identified as typical forms of what he called 'primitive accumulation'. The commodification of labour, land and money

—p.29 Progressive and regressive politics in late neoliberalism (26) by Donatella della Porta
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archaisms (en)

a thing that is very old or old-fashioned (i.e., archaic)

113

the irruption of archaisms in the West's postmodern societies

—p.113 Politics in the age of resentment: the dark legacy of the Enlightenment (104) by Pankaj Mishra
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the irruption of archaisms in the West's postmodern societies

—p.113 Politics in the age of resentment: the dark legacy of the Enlightenment (104) by Pankaj Mishra
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hermetic (en)

(of a seal or closure) complete and airtight

118

a new hermetic jargon sprang up

—p.118 The courage to be audacious (117) by Robert Misik
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a new hermetic jargon sprang up

—p.118 The courage to be audacious (117) by Robert Misik
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prosopopoeia (en)

a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified OR an imagined or absent person or thing is represented as speaking (literally, "mask-making")

186

ideological prosopopoeia is having a heyday: the markets have started to talk again as living persons, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity

—p.186 The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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ideological prosopopoeia is having a heyday: the markets have started to talk again as living persons, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity

—p.186 The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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