Episode 279: Why Capitalists Don't Exist

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Categorizing certain things is important. Over-categorizing them, though, can be more damaging to one's understanding than not categorizing things at all. Lately, I've realized that categorizations have impeded understanding our world to the point that perhaps we should just jettison certain categorizations altogether. Hence, Episode 279: Why Capitalists Don't Exist.

In this episode, I read from: Lulu Miller's book Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life; Jodi Dean's book Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle; a Marxist essay that defined "serf" for me; a small bit of Karl Marx's "The Poverty of Philosophy"; and Will Storr's book The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It.

Musically, I play: KMFDM backing George Monbiot in the opening; Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang close the show with "Over the Rainbow".