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The logic of profit leads capital to refuse to assume the costs of the reproduction of the « conditions of production »: labour power, infrastructures, development and planning, environment. The logic of profit leads capital to pillage nature (which is a determining factor in the current growth-rate) and to resort to planned intervention, mediated by state agencies in terms of legitimation and expertise. It also gives a basis to the « new social movements » which are against it at various levels (local or global environment, women, cultures, comrnunities), and brings them into contact with labour and Third-World struggles.