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Notes on Degrowth and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
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Dismantle Racial Capitalism - K. Sabeel Rahman
Dismantle Racial Capitalism - K. Sabeel…
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Circular economy - SUPERTRASH
Circular economy - SUPERTRASH
Thinking Beyond Capitalism with André Gorz
Thinking Beyond Capitalism with André G…
Revolutionary Study Guide
Revolutionary Study Guide

Planners are also responsible for maintaining the spatial dimension of racial inequalities. Capitalism is always racial—though the precise meaning and articulation of racial differentiation and domination varies and changes over time and place. In all instances, however, capitalism produces powerful racial ideologies, a set of human categories with supposedly inborn and homogeneous traits that legitimate the system’s inherent inequalities.
Within the capitalist state, planners are tasked with reproducing this racist order through a series of supposedly race-neutral tools that are, in reality, anything but. The clearest examples are zoning and urban renewal, two policies whose formal raison d’être is to create rational and orderly urban landscapes; in reality, however, these tools are often used to target one racial group for exclusion or expulsion while clearing the way for another’s quality of life.
Planning itself is not inherently racist; in fact, it is central to racism’s negation. But racial capitalism asks planners to sort out who will go where, under what conditions and for whose benefit. Such actions are intrinsically coercive. Planners often describe the force underlying their work as “police power.”
Samuel Stein, Capital City

What is urban planning’s role in the maintenance of capitalism?
What is urban planning’s role in the ma…
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This Brand is Late Capitalism | Rachel Connolly
This Brand is Late Capitalism | Rachel …
 Alien Capital - Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism - Iyko Day
Alien Capital - Asian Racialization an…
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How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21st Century - Erik Olin Wright
How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21…
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