Agreed, but didn't these processes start well before capitalism as such emerged?
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Yes, it’s called Game A: to own Property for value extraction or value appreciation. Game B: to manage Property for value creation ... Plan for new global alternative: http://Common-Planet.org
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Did you ever read The Gift? I feel like I’ve been asking you that for years.

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Rochelle, hasn't every single anthropologist read The Gift? Compulsory reading for anyone interested in the field. :-)
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Indeed, as brilliantly analysed in prof. Achille Mbembe's latest masterpiece: |Brutalisme|. Abt the ways in which
#capitalism fissures, fractures, breaks & extracts matter, the living world, people, consciousness, desire & communities. https://editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Brutalisme-9782348057496.html … via@Ed_LaDecouverteThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So, it takes living things and turns them into dead things, on the grounds that doing so “creates value”. Do we only value dead things and only then because we can fix a price for them?
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True. And imo only possible because too many people in high places have never been required to take IQ and EQ tests.
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Karl Polanyi, The Great transformation : "...A self-adjusting market... could nor exist for any lenght of time without annihilating the human & natural substance of society. It would have physically destroyed man & transformed his surroundings into a wilderness".
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Capitalism intellectually represents our age's attitude towards life,others& existence in general. Democracy has adopted many a lessons from it: …http://influxofcapitalisticvalues.blogspot.com/2010/11/influx-of-capitalistic-values-into.html?m=1 …
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Such is the danger of quantifying ecosystem services. It provides insight into how valuable and important our natural resources are while also placing a price tag that some entity can exploit.
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