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Anarchism (n.) is not traceable to a specific individual, group, movement, or body of writing.It is merely any relation between practices, attitudes, and visions that are opposed to authoritarian structures.
Anarchism (n.) is simply a vision of human possibilities that displays a particular attitude' which 'reject[s] government and believe[s] that people would be better off in a world without hierarchies . . And those that engage in practices and forms of social organization that are broadly egalitarian in ethos.
Anthropology (n.) observes what people do, teases out the hidden symbolic, moral, and pragmatic logics that underlie their actions. It looks at people's habits and actions as making sense in ways they are not themselves completely aware of.
Capitalism (n.) is not merely the production of economic value but control over social values, control not over industrial commodity production but over social reproduction.
A Commercial economy (n.) is an economy in which money is used to buy and sell things and the commodification of the necessaries of life (housing, clothing, food) raises the possibility of the oppressive subjection of the needy to their creditors, a subjection that is all the more humiliating because is between supposed equals.
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Debt (n.) is a promise perverted through mathematics and violence.
The Free market (n.) is the unleashing of the dogs of the market by the right, followed by the offer of tradition to save the victims.
Human economy (n.) is an economy in which an individual is part of a network of particular social relations (as mother, brother, cousin, wife) and the principal function of exchange is to maintain that system of relations and to effect 'moves' within it.
The Necktie (n.) is, as a symbolically displaced penis, a sign of masculinity, which explains why men who wear bow ties are universally taken to be nerds.
The Necktie (n.) is a curious object in that it is uncomfortable and serves no immediate function. It doesn’t hold your trousers up or keep you warm.
The Necktie (n.) is a phallic symbol, and as such, a decorative accentuating of the masculine organ just as earrings, lipstick, eyeshadow, etc tend to highlight feminine receptive organs.
The Necktie (n.) is a symbolic displacement of the penis, only an intellectualized penis, dangling not from one’s sexual-based crotch but from one’s power-based head.
The Necktie (n.) marks a final act of closure. It’s the act that transforms all those items into a suit, with all the suit implies, whether it’s the power of the boardroom or the ceremonial formalities of weddings and funerals.
The Necktie (n.) is both the quintessential symbol of the stiff and formal suit and also it’s very opposite - the only place where one can add color or otherwise express oneself a little.
The Necktie (n.) is symbolic of the phallus, and by extension, it is symbolic of a male compensation-fantasy grounded in the notion that men create society publicly and out in the world just as women’s powers of creation lie in the private sphere.
A Police officer (n.) is a bureaucrat with a weapon.