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Marxism and economic protest

Marxism and economic protest

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Carl Beijer
Aug 05, 2014
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A favorite game on the right is to point out how Capitalism’s critics are often themselves implicated in the Capitalist economy. This almost always involves crediting Capitalism with modern technology – so the leftist who tweets from his iPhone, for example, is allegedly profiting from the exploitation of labor even as he decries it.

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