The TMPE is not yet built. It is not yet transporting oil. Yet, it bears a price. Within the capitalist economy having a price is synonymous with having value. The value of assets like the TMPE are based on capitalist expectations for the future.
Those expectations are a key part of the capitalist imaginary that not only conceives of a future but informs decision-making that continually recreates the capitalist order.
Analysis of asset prices offers an important means to understand—and intervene in—the capitalist imaginary. Capitalist expectations have wide-reaching consequences via decisions that mobilize financial and material resources.
An understanding of the landscape of the capitalist imaginary can orient resistance efforts. In the confrontation of the TMPE, Secwepemc land defenders are agitating not just on the ground but in the capitalist imaginary.
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