Module 2, Lesson 2.3: The Ugly: Motivation


In this third lesson of Module 2, Associate Professor Paulo dos Santos draws on a large number of contributions to consider a vital question about the social content of capitalist economies: In what ways do those economies rely on extractions from certain social groups and on individual appropriations from our collective or common resources? In other words, to what extent do profits depend on simply taking things from people and from the planet?

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