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The myth of adjective capitalism
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The myth of adjective capitalism

How a popular style of rhetoric shields capitalism from direct criticism.

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Carl Beijer
Jul 09, 2021
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When you read the word fireman, what comes to mind? From a grammatical perspective, one might imagine some process that begins by looking at the word’s constituent parts — fire and man — and then some conjecture about how these two words are related. The concepts remain distinct in your mind every step of the way.

This may seem like a pretty intuitive an…

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