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All meaning is necessarily teleological in character and historically rooted in the concrete operations of human subjects.

— Silvia Federici Viet Cong Philosophy: Tran Duc Thao (1970)

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Indeed, the Europe that was preparing to become a Promethean world-mover, presumably taking humankind to new technological and cultural heights, was a place where people never had enough to eat.

Caliban and the Witch (2004)

The abstract categories of imperialism are neither exempt from the need of a foundation, nor will the fact that they are coextensive with ordinary discourse provide them with the needed foundation.

Viet Cong Philosophy: Tran Duc Thao (1970)

They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Every miscarriage is a work accident.

Wages against Housework (1975)

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