If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue_ control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is_ a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives_ labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.
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2312
Antarctica
Aurora
Blue Mars
Escape From Kathmandu
Green Mars
Icehenge
New York 2140
Pacific Edge
Red Mars
Shaman
Sixty Days and Counting
The Lucky Strike
The Years of Rice and Salt
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