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Conclusion (Part 1): Why Marxism and Islamic Economics Fail as Alternatives to Capitalism
Even Graeber succumbs to the romanticism of communism and Islamic Economics
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Addendum: Chapter 12 (Part 2): The New Class Struggle: Microloans and Debt Payments
Microloans rebranded charity into entrepreneurship while NGOs enforce debt payment as a form of self-discipline.
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Addendum: Chapter 12 (Part 1): The Gospel of Divine Growth
The evangelical blueprint behind the American neoliberal capitalism of unlimited growth and potential: a two-parent household and a completely…
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Chapter 12 (Part 5): Neoliberalism's New Religion
Neoliberalism fits with the growth of an American Evangelical Right to build its Republic.
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Chapter 12 (Part 4): Slaves to Credit: Capitalism's New Deal
How did we end up here? We are once again middle class slaves to credit.
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Addendum 2 (12.3): Rituals and Returns: China's Tributary Playbook
Why political or economic submission look like generosity in China's tribute logic
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Addendum (12.3): Haunted by Credit: 'Structural Adjustment' as Modern Tribute
Structural adjustment simply means, 'open your market for business' whether you like it or not
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Chapter 12 (Part 3): Debt Imperialism: Bank Loans as Modern Tribute
The new tributary order demands debt peonage as part of the loan repayment
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Chapter 12 (Part 2): The U.S. Dollar: Backed by Power, Not Gold
The apogee of hypercapitalism is to represent a single currency like the U.S. dollar as the world's money backed, not by gold, but by a military…
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Chapter 12 (Part 1): The Magic Money of Capitalism (and the Missing 9/11 Gold)
Money is magical because it appears/disappears out of thin air.
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Chapter 11 (Part 8): The Apocalypse in Western Casino Capitalism
Whether in France's court capitalism or England's industrial capitalism, capital extraction always portends of imminent destruction to the human way of…
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Chapter 11 (Part 7): The Gambler in Western Casino Capitalism
The gambler figure in casino capitalism risks his entire life and universe to potentially win big but without playing by the rules
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Melanie’s Frontal Lobe
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I am committed to slowly reading and deep-diving one non-fiction book a year. Mostly in anthropology.
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