Cap

History of capitalism
No date but its an important revolution- the Neolithic revolution
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Everyones nomadic at first

Then they began to settle down and learn to grow seeds into food
Creates the basis for striation in that society

The feudal system serfs trade labor for protection

Mercantilism- raw goods into finalized goods and then trading post
Exchanging labor to private organizations which is way worse
French revolution- the estates
It was funny because some lawyers had more money then the aristocrats because
of the power status
The creation of the middle class with the tennis court oath
Napoleon lead this charge and spread the Napoleonic code across the globe

Karl Marx
all life is the struggle of capital and thats how history is founded
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Everything was a struggle for resources

Exchanging labor for capital
Exchanging labor for something is idiotic because your labor is what makes
you you
We are forced to compete with one another for the little resources that are
available which means people can never life to their full potential
The world exists because of this line that determines between good and evil

Socialism
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The workers would rise up and over take the system ie people like zapitistas
You have to share the resources
You can still have nice things but large areas of land is the communal land

Communism
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You have the disappearance of this and a move towards this areas of
communes
Crimes of necessity are no longer there because people will care
Crimes of passion will still exist
You will just not have to compete for funding

Why is cap necessary?

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Competition is at the heart of capitalism

And this is what makes society better
Competition for marx is a way that capitalism would inevitably fall
Cap conditions have to get so bad for cap to fall

Race and Gender

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This is what defined us the most

Conflict of resources

Racism
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Over economic resource concerns

We are afraid that other people will take necessary resources away from us
If you take that away and have them realize that theirs no class and nothing
to compete over then we will see them as equals

Gender
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Men doing the heavy lifting and women taking care of children
As tech advanced free time came to be and people believed that women
should take care of the kid
You will get rid of this distinction and allow for everyone to work in factories
or in any role because theirs no difference between the two

Freud
Foreground of the field as a psychoanalyst
Life was defined by the unconscious and thats shaped by your relations to your
mom and dad
The oedipal desire to understand the differences between the genders ie father is
authority figure
And the mom is the caretaker
Unconscious is where all the bad things come out when you dont want them to
Cant control the id and it came about to keep you safe
Superego helps you understand
Ego is your everyday business

Lacan
More focus on language
The family is important but its more a focus on language and how we focus on signs
Stop sign signifier is the word stop the signified the sign post and the sign is the
image in your head
Life is defined in stages
Prelingual 0-2, you have no idea about partial objects but you are connected to
everything around you theirs no distinction between things
Mirror stages you realize that you are separate from the world and you are not
connected to the world like you were
The lack the yearning for something more the yearning for the something that was
taken from us so we do things like create connections with other people and we do
that through communication
The world is not structured by the economy but by a form of singifiers and use it to
creat a form of wholeness
The trauma of the real the veil gets lifted and you see the world as it is because
you cant handle the world of the prelingual

1950s France
Politics different factions of anticap structures
Deleuze was super radical academic
May 68 workers and the academics fight together to change the system
Deleuze and Guatarri met up and hit it up
Why did the revolution fail? Well because static relationships were
counterproductive and self-involved
Arbor societies need to have arbor revolutionsthese operate because of desire
Desire has no lack
Striated and smooth space
No singular understanding of identity

Baudrillard
Hyperreality- ex capital it used to be the amount of gold but now its dollars and now
its credit cards
The revolution just replicates capitalism
Resistance allows us to think that the world is getting better but in actuality it isnt
Why are they burning their own community
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The third no its a no towards the entire system

Reversibility
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Neoliberal policies will twist and reverse upon themselves

Actively do nothing and not engage the strategy of the masses
Tyranny of the self- because if you prove reversibility is true then your failings
will result in hatred towards yourself internal self hatred and it was worse
then any other impact