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Originally Posted by kinn
Now I have a MASSIVE problem with what you say about the rice and global warming. THIS is the ideological trap. this is zizek 101 stuff. The idea that capitalism COULD work but it CAN'T because of our human nature. if only we were more nice. we must look for this moral progress from within! this is the lie. from this it follows "oh we're all just so greedy, it's all OUR fault as consumers, but you can't change human nature, how depressing..." not only does this let the corporations off the hook, it basically casts the system as benevolent BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HUMAN NATURE AS INHERENT AND SEPARATE FROM THE SYSTEM AND NOT MANUFACTURED BY IT. boom. can i have my zero books deal now.
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The struggle I have is to identify what capitalism is; I don't feel its a single edifice to be removed, it's a million things, beyond the multiplicity and into the sublime. I don't disagree with what you've said above, except to say that capitalism doesn't have a single definition. Sometimes, capitalism is that version you're negating above. That isn't the one we should emphasise, I agree, and I've likely mis-represented myself if you've got that impression from what I wrote last night.