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The 1%, Exploitation And Wealth: Tim Di Muzio Interviews Shimshon Bichler And Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler, Jonathan Nitzan, Timothy Dimuzio

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Tim Di Muzio: You argue that the capital as power framework does not offer a general theory of society but an incisive account of how capitalists shape and reshape our world through the logic of differential capitalization and accumulation. As you well know, the Occupy Wall Street movement has organized under the banner ‘We are the 99%’, opposing what they refer to as the global 1%.

Could the capital as power framework be conceptualized as the political economy of the 1%? If not, do you see any way in which the capital as power framework could contribute to a critical …