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Jason Hickel

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Where did progress come from? Well, it coincided with the rise of labour movements, democracy movements, socialist movements and anti-colonial movements that fought to organize production around human needs and public provisioning, quite often against the interests of capital.

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As many scholars have argued, progress comes from progressive social movements - it is not spontaneously bequeathed by capital, or the processes of capital accumulation. In the words of Thomas Sankara: we are the heirs of the world's revolutions.

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