BE Group Read. Regarding all the uses of the phrase "late capitalism" in BE
Mark Kohut
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Mon Dec 13 11:37:26 UTC 2021
Sam Haselby
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1m <https://twitter.com/samhaselby/status/1470354880107880451>
The phrase "late capitalism" has been in use for over a century and there's
never been less evidence during that time that it's near end times for
capitalism.
This is why I think its use in BE is ironic, is, like so much, a phrase he
satirizes in this way, so to speak: It is always Late Capitalism. To quote
his GR line analogously:
" it has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now". A way
of constantly speaking of a patterned (in a way, he says) present.
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