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‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

Protests across Bolivia began on July 27 for the restoration of democracy.

Electrek Tesla secures a supply agreement with China's biggest lithium

Elon Musk is acting like a neo-Conquistador for South America’s lithium

Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to Brazil sometime this year.

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Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx
by Kevin B. Anderson
It is important to see both Marx’s brilliant generalisations about capitalist society and the very concrete ways in which he examined not only class, but also gender, race, and colonialism, and what today would be called the intersectionality of all of these. His underlying revolutionary humanism was the enemy of all forms of abstraction that denied the variety and multiplicity of human experience. For these reasons, no thinker speaks to us today with such force and clarity.
Philosophy and Technology: A Perspective from Health Care and Law
by Alysson Leandro Mascaro
The philosophical understanding of technology historically presents a pendular characteristic, swinging between enthusiasm and fear. The control of nature, the creation of artifacts that substitute what is naturally given, and the liberating while subjugating power of technology all give rise to enchantment and apprehension, which impact the philosophical horizon.

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