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The most extreme form of martial capitalism, where capitalism rules everything and everyone with an iron fist, operating in a permanent state of exception—suspending normal legal protections, democratic oversight, and human rights at will. Under exception capitalism, the logic of profit overrides all other values, and any resistance is treated as a threat to be eliminated by whatever means necessary. It is capitalism as a totalitarian system: no strikes, no protests, no unions, no safety nets. Exception capitalism justifies itself through endless crisis (economic, pandemic, climate) to maintain a state of emergency that never ends.
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