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Throughline February 24, 2022 48m

There Are No Utopias

NPR

Summary

The transcript discusses Black History Month advertising and critically examines the notion of corporate social responsibility through the lens of racial capitalism, a concept advanced by Cedric Robinson and Robin D.G. Kelly. It argues that capitalism inherently relies on racism to exploit labor by assigning differential value to human life and labor, concluding that true liberation requires an anti-capitalist stance.

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