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1. Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 11:11:21 UTC Cory Doctorow's linkblog

   The crybabies who freak out about *The Communist Manifesto* appearing on university curriculum clearly never read it - chapter one is basically a long hymn to capitalism's flexibility and inventiveness, its ability to change form and adapt itself to everything the world throws at it and come out on top:

   https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007

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   • Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 11:11:20 UTC Cory Doctorow's linkblog

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     Today, leftists signal this protean capacity of capital with the -washing suffix: #greenwashing, #genderwashing, #queerwashing, #wokewashing - all the ways capital cloaks itself in liberatory, progressive values, while still serving as a force for extraction, exploitation, and political corruption.

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   • Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 11:11:21 UTC Cory Doctorow's linkblog

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     If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

     https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

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