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Prof says individual rights fuel ‘capitalist violence’
Campus Reform ^ | 4-25-2018 | Kyle Hooten

Posted on 04/26/2018 7:25:23 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

A Marquette University professor recently argued that individual liberties, including free speech and property rights, are merely forces “that reproduce capitalist violence.”

Professor Jodi Melamed made the remarks during a lecture titled “Understanding Racial Capitalism and the Open Secret of Racial Capitalist Violence,” which she delivered at St. Olaf college on April 20.

After “acknowledging the people of this land, especially the Wahpekute Dakota who have been relative to this land on which St. Olaf sits for melania,” Melamed stated that the purpose of her address was to “share with you guys some new work on the open secret of racial capitalist violence.”

The scholar went on to define racial capitalism as a "way of thinking about how racial procedures that differentially value and devalue, and devalued human being are inseparable from capitalist relations of accumulation.” According to the professor, capitalism “requires inequality” while racism “enshrines the inequality that capitalism requires.”

“In my book [Represent and Destroy] I focus on three domains of administration that reproduce capitalist violence as an open secret but all work together in practice,” she continued. “The first is police procedures, the second is the exercise of rights, especially individual rights, property rights, states rights [and] free speech as well.”

The professor argued that Americans are currently experiencing “a partial remaking of rights under the combined pressure of the ultra-capitalist radical right—a block that leads today for extractive financial and corporate capitalism and the political resurgence of a libertarian-leaning ethno-nationalism, which we can think of as a highly individualistic, lightly veiled version of white supremacy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; homosexualagenda; jodimelamed; marquetteuniversity; stolafcollege; wahpekutedakota
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To: Sir Napsalot
Understanding Racial Capitalism and the Open Secret of Racial Capitalist Violence

Also known as, "My opinion unattached to logic, reason, or reality."

21 posted on 04/26/2018 9:33:35 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Professor Jodi Malamed fuels violence just to sell books


22 posted on 04/26/2018 9:47:26 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Idiots like this need to be removed from the gene pool so I guess by her reasoning she is responsible for socialist violence.


23 posted on 04/26/2018 10:39:22 AM PDT by MCRD
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