The time of your life is the prime
The reader is not asked to share any metaphysical abhorrence of markets or to pledge allegiance to any positive image of human flourishing. The reader is asked to accept a single discipline: that categories be taken at their word.
Once that discipline is accepted, the consequent path is narrow but inexorable. Labour becomes visible as capital’s not-self; value as the impersonal form that realizes that relation; fetishism as the practical necessity of misrecognition under those conditions; class as the concentration of that contradiction; emancipation as the disappearance of labour’s universality.
Freedom is slavery. Democracy is dictatorship. Misrecognition is truth.
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