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 Table of Contents

• What Is Class?
• What Are Wages?
• Is Wage-Labor a Voluntary Exchange?
• The Purchase of People
• Getting Paid vs. Getting Richer
• The Market: Capitalism’s System of Distribution
• 7 Main Characteristics of a Market Economy
• Alienation of Labor
• Immigration: Cheap Labor, Nationalism, and Borders
Nature
• Capitalism and Nature
• Capitalism Devours Nature
• Capitalism is Ecocide
Glossary of Terms
• Democratic Socialism vs. Social Democracy

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What Is Class?
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What Are Wages?

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Is Wage-Labor
a
Voluntary Exchange?
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The Purchase
of
People
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Getting Paid
vs.
Getting Richer
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The Market:
Capitalism’s System
of
Distribution
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7 Main Characteristics
of a
Market Economy
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Alienation of Labor
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Immigration:
Cheap Labor, Nationalism,
and Borders
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Capitalism and Nature

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Capitalism Devours
Nature
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Capitalism is
Ecocide
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Glossary of Terms
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