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Bootstraps ideology and the 2020 primaries

Bootstraps ideology and the 2020 primaries

Capitalism always downplays the challenges faced by the working class.

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Carl Beijer
May 27, 2020
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I’m tempted to say that it was Marx who taught us that there are limits to our political agency — that we make our own history, but do not make it as we please — but that is not quite right. This is a lesson that we learn when we’re children. For Freud, it was the lesson: you want your mother, but the world tells you that you cannot have her, and you ei…

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