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Feb 22, 2023Liked by Ashley Rodriguez

This was a really good interview - More anthropology on Boss Barista please!

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Thanks for this very thoughtful conversation!

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Feb 22, 2023Liked by Ashley Rodriguez

That interview was fantastic!

It made me think a lot more about the 3rd Wave movement.

My only comment might be that using small-scale farmers as examples of 'owning the means of production' is probably a mischaracterisation of Marxist thinking on the subject.

It's not the question of whether you own a small farm or processing plant, it's whether as a class (class in Marxism shock!) you 'own' the economic system.

In this instance it would be asking which countries and types of business 'own' the systems of production, distribution, trade etc in the global coffee trade, which you both correctly identified as neoliberal issues.

But that's just a minor quibble, I read the entire transcript and will give it a listen too!

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