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On @jmrphy podcast @Outsideness says something to the effect that "emancipation corresponds strictly to a process of dehumanization." He is trying to meet Murphy half way as it were. I don't think that the term dehumanization means shooting ppl and throwing them in ditches in
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2/ this context, but rather that human political desire no longer constitutes the center of human existence, and that production (capital) comes to replace that center. Power is the opposite of equality, and a perfectly equal society would be radically dis-empowering to the very
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3/ leftists that go on and on about equality. The trouble is that natural/tribal society is radically parasitical: it maintains "equality" (of outcome) by stealing the goods from anyone with a surplus. This is called "sharing" or a "property-less society."
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4/ The problem w/ sharing is that it caused a million year economic depression. Tribes prevent the accumulation of capital, and thus, they prevent humans from rising out of poverty since no one can run a farm, open a factory, etc All productive surplus gets "shared" to oblivion
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this is the stupidest shit ive ever seen lol. please read a book
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like this one?https://books.google.com/books?id=fP0c4b3jbMYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=raids&f=false …
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neolithic peoples didnt have have capital because they sharwd food
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they didn't have capital precisely because they shared (and stole in raids) each others food, and thus could not accumulate seed corn/large tracts of land to mortgage, develop modern banking, etc.
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would that they stopped sharing their barley so they could invent literacy, wage labor, markets and double entry bookkeeping
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