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The coronavirus crisis, like all others, is unevenly felt.

Those at the receiving end of exploitation and oppression under conditions of capitalist

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I must confess that I am simply stretched too thin and super beat and cannot post a new episode this week.

It happens.

But we have tons of incredible stuff coming up, including our very special and fancy narrative series on life

and politics under COVID. And today, I'm replaying one of my favorite interviews of all time

from the archive. Legendary critical theorist Nancy Frazier on why Marxism requires a total

analysis of capitalism that encompasses the totality of the system

that we live in and under beyond a narrowly economicistic conception. Throughout its history,

capitalism has been defined not just by labor exploitation, but also by the disavowal of that exploitation's own basic

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