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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Under capitalism, prices tell us what to do, which products to buy,

to whom we must sell our labor, where we live, the clothes we wear, what sort of education and

health care we receive, how we spend our free time and whether we have any free time at all, when

and how we die. Fundamentally, the price of the labor that workers must sell to survive, measured

against, the price of the commodified means of subsistence is what imposes upon workers what

marks described as the double freedom under capitalism, the freedom to either work or to starve.

When the price that one receives for one's labor falls below the price of food, people riot and

revolt. The first attempt to create a free market for bread in 1775 produced the world's first

modern price war, a series of riots across King Louis XVI's France known as the Flower Wars.

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