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“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African slave,” and of other nonwhite peoples and any others whom it can catch up in its grasp. So necessary is such sacrifice that it is…” quote by Mark Lewis Taylor
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““The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African slave,” and of other nonwhite peoples and any others whom it can catch up in its grasp. So necessary is such sacrifice that it is rationalized as legitimate. Part of this process of legitimization involved racial disparagement, constructing “others” for dehumanized exploitable purposes. If those who are marked for sacrifice become unruly, they become figures that are seen to merit greater control.””

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