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The Dig: The Manifesto w/ China Miéville

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The Socioeconomic Reality of Capitalism

Marx bro credentials are indeed engendered as part of being class. And that's the point about a nuanced understanding of class. People who haven't read the manifesto might be surprised by how much is dedicated to the question of the family. They write that the proletarianization of working-class women and children means that no such hallowed family form exists among the working class. The bourgeois family will vanish when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

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