"there is a link, it seems to me, between the internalization of the era of Karl Marx and the new globalisms we are seeking to build today. Of course, the global economy is far more complicated than Marx may have ever attempted to imagine. But at the same time his analyses, it seems to me, are equally resonant today. Capital begins with a look at commodity. The capitalist commodity has penetrated people's lives in ways that are unprecedented. The commodity has entered ... capitalism in general has entered structures of feeling, the intimate spaces of people's lives."
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2003 interview in Conversations with Angela Davis Edited by Sharon Lynette Jones (2021)
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Karl Marx
1818 – 1883
deutscher Journalist, Ökonom, Gesellschaftswissenschaftler und Philosoph
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