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Necrocapitalism

I learned a new word that explains a lot. I hate it.
A protester leads a chant during a Black Lives Matter march on July 13, 2020
A protester leads a chant during a Black Lives Matter march through a residential neighborhood calling for racial justice on July 13, 2020 in Valley Stream, NY [AP/John Minchillo]
Cameroonian critical theorist Achille Mbembe first described the role of extreme violence in the functioning of larger biopolitical orders as “necropolitics” – not merely a state’s “right” to kill and to organise people to be killed (as opposed to live), but to expose them to extreme violence and death and reduce entire segments of populations to the barest and most precarious existence. All in order to preserve the established economic and political hierarchies of the capitalist system.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/7/15/from-neoliberalism-to-necrocapitalism-in-20-years
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