Chapter Twenty-Five: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Marx on Dispossession
Tag: Criticism of capitalism
Cogs, Cracks, and Consequences
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Pandora’s Box: Hope as Illusion
I learn something new every day. I have Gustavo Horta to thank for sending me back to a story I hadn’t revisited since kindergarten: “Pandora’s Box.”
Read More »Democracies, Demo-cracias, Corporatocracies, and Demonocracy
I usually use the translate feature on my iPhone for reading, but for this repost, I’ve used Google Translate. While some nuance may be lost, I hope the “gist” remains clear. I haven’t parsed every linked source yet, but I find myself in deep agreement with Gustavo Horta’s critique of “Demo-cracias.”
Read More »Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?
Leading left economists Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis jointly wrote an article for the British newspaper, the Guardian this week. It was headlined as “We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps.” Jason Hickel is professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE. Yanis Varoufakis is the leader of MeRA25, a former finance minister and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?
NiN: Capital G
Though numerous reviews of the album speculated that “G” might refer to the first initial of George W. Bush, Trent Reznor has stated that the “G” stands for “greed”.
Wikipedia/Music and Lyrics
Laugh
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?
Not because I’m carefree, but because it’s rare to hear anything good anymore. The world keeps serving the same menu: wars, death, fascism, greed. Call it neoliberalism, call it capitalism — the label doesn’t matter. The outcome is the same. So if something fantastic actually breaks through all that noise, of course I laugh. It feels like a glitch in the system.
“Boomer Blaming” is a Win for the Status Quo.
Crickets and Cold War Propaganda
“Money is the jealous god of Israel…”
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
On The Jewish Question
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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