Lack: The art of a dominant class
How capitalism requires and reproduces our dependence
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]Lack […] is created, planned, and organized in and through social production. […] It is never primary; production is never organized on the basis of a pre-existing need or lack […] The deliberate creation of lack as a function of market economy is the art of a dominant class. This involves deliberately organizing wants and needs […] amid an…
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