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It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive ‘modernity’ as a social ideal

The book also takes up and seeks to rebut older objections to socialism

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but the dawn of modernity

deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding

Involution keyword-iafa It seems clear that theChinas hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an antisocial work culture, forms of passive resistance have become endemic. Through conversations with young workers from across China,