Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation.

But his company, Boring, has never completed a major public project in Texas.
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"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."

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"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."

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They used #racial ideology to construct a global division of #labor, a massively inequitable global division of #wages, & a global #hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of #hatred & #violence.

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These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin & more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

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The struggle against #racism must be #anticapitalist, & the struggle against #capitalism must be #antiracist.

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Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

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They used #racial ideology to construct a global division of #labor, a massively inequitable global division of #wages, & a global #hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of #hatred & #violence.

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And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower #wages to radicalized people, & to deny them equal access to #resources.

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... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.

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How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? #Race. Discourses of #whitesupremacy & #racial #hierarchy were fabricated by the #European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, ...

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This was an extraordinarily #violent process, involving #colonization, #dispossession, mass #enslavement, & #genocide.

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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

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To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit #labor & #nature with impunity, where you can externalize #social & #ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.

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This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.

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To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap #labor & cheap #nature. You have to deny people control over their #land, & deny #workers access to the yields of their #production.

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And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.

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