Sunday, June 7, 2020

Lessons Marcuse Taught Me — Robert Paul Wolff


Deconstructing the "cause" of this crisis and any large-scale crisis.

There are inevitably a constellation of factors loosely related as by "family resemblance" (Wittgenstein). The "cause" is the configuration of the system relative to prevailing conditions, here under late-stage capitalism and globalization as the world transitions from the industrial model to the digital model. Call it "neoliberalism" if you like.

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