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@Remittancegirl I don't think #capitalism is a gravity well we need strive to escape, I think it is a highly unstable artificial construct that we (as a society) have to put enormous continuous effort into maintaining.

It will fall over all by itself sooner or later, without us having to do anything to bring that about. But its fall will cause massive disruption, and unless we have prepared alternatives to cope, that will cause widespread suffering.

cc: @urlyman

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Caro S.

@Heidentweet@todon.eu · 2 days ago

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced

"Clara Mattei is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath.

Her new book, Escape from Capitalism, argues that many of the problems that we see as inevitable - poverty, unemployment, inflation - are built into the system and shored up by models and theories designed to convince us that there is no alternative.

On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mattei about whether there is an alternative to capitalism."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #democracy #ABetterWorldIsPossible #economics #inequality #Austerity

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Madeleine Morris

@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social · yesterday

@simon_brooke

Liberal democracies - I don't even know what you mean by that.

Unless you can come up with a really effective way of completely escaping the gravity well of capitalism by thursday, we're not going to find a 'solution' anytime soon that isn't a compromise - which some 'liberal democracies' have done pretty well.

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot replied · yesterday

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@PandaCab@ni.hil.ist · 6 days ago

Capitalism ruins everything is touches. It doesn't bring innovation, "progress" (whatever that means), or "prosperity". It just exploits anything it can, even something as immaterial as ideas and directly or indirectly destroys everything it touches.

It rots everything, from the environment to people, from the seas go the sky, our bodies and our souls.

It's either it or us.

#capitalism

Caro S.

@Heidentweet@todon.eu · 2 days ago

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced

"Clara Mattei is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath.

On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mattei about whether there is an alternative to capitalism."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #democracy #ABetterWorldIsPossible #economics #inequality #Austerity

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Farhad

@faab64@freefree.ps · 2 days ago

#Plutocracy is being openly broadcast with complete impunity.

The people screaming about food stam recipients buying soda or potato chips for a few dollars are definitely ok with it and supporting the orange Hitler profiteering from the genocide.

#US #Capitalism #Israel #Genocide #Gaza #Palestine #tRump #Dumbfuckistan
@palestine

In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring $10 billion from the U.S. government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can use the funds as
he wishes. — In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring $10 billion from the U.S. government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can use the funds as he wishes.

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Autonomie und Solidarität

@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu · 3 months ago

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

#USA #Europe #Surveillance #Technology #Capitalism #TechnoFacism

Farhad

@faab64@freefree.ps · 3 days ago

It's so hard not hating them

#Capitalism #UKpol

MikeDunnAuthor

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 3 days ago

Today in Labor History February 19, 1948: Joe Ettor died on this date. Ettor was an IWW union organizer, who helped spearhead the Lawrence Bread & Roses Strike of 1912. "If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. As long as the workers keep their hands in their pockets, the capitalists cannot put theirs there. With passive resistance, with the workers absolutely refusing to move, lying absolutely silent, they are more powerful than all the weapons and instruments that the other side has for attack." Ettor was active in the 1907 Portland lumber strike, the 1909 McKees Rocks Strike, the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1909-10, and a Brooklyn shoe factory strike in 1910-11.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #joeettor #IWW #union #strike #GeneralStrike #solidarity #sabotage #BreadAndRoses #lawrence #solidarity #capitalism

Employers feared "Ettorism". This 1913 anti-union cartoon from The American Employer depicts an IWW organizing drive as "a volcano of hate stirred into active eruption at Akron, by alien hands, which pour into the crater the disturbing acids and alkalis of greed, class hatred and anarchy. From the mouth of the pit rise poisonous clouds of suspicion, malice and envy to pollute the air, while from the cracked and breaking sides of the groaning mountain flow streams of lava of murder, anarchy and destruction, threatening to engulf in their path the fair cities and fertile farms of Ohio." By American Employer Pub. Co. (A.S. Van Duzer, editor) - The American employer, Volumes 1-2, American Employer Pub. Co., Chamber of Commerce Building, Cleveland, Ohio, May, 1913, page 595 (A monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the businessmen of the United States and Canada who hire labor), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27063708

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@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu · 4 days ago

The ‘terrorism’ trap

Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression
~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova

‚The internal war that governments wage against the exploited and working classes manifests itself primarily through repression against political forces seeking change in social organisation and against mass movements expressing social discontent with specific situations and government actions….‘

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/18/the-terrorism-trap/

#Repression #Capitalism #Protest #Terrorism

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The 'terrorism' trap - Freedom News

Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression ~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova ~ Th…

Autonomie und Solidarität

@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu · 2 years ago

How goverments are using facial recognition to crack down on protesters

Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. #FacialRecognition #technology changes the equation.

"But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters.
(...)
In countries where demonstrating can come with physical or political risk, large-scale protests have historically offered a degree of anonymity, and, with it, a level of protection. Mass protests are a way for citizens to express dissent as a collective — often under the assumption that “they can’t arrest us all.”

But in the last decade, the spread of facial recognition technology has changed that equation: A lone face in a crowd is no longer anonymous; facial recognition allows #authorities to capture people’s identities en masse."

https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/

#surveillance #Protest #Repression

Autonomie und Solidarität

@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu replied · 4 days ago

The ‘terrorism’ trap

Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression
~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/18/the-terrorism-trap/

#Repression #Capitalism #Protest #Terrorism

Freedom News

The 'terrorism' trap - Freedom News

Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression ~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova ~ Th…

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Daniel Lakeland

@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org · 4 days ago

https://capitalaspower.com/2021/05/cherizola-from-commodities-to-assets/

The "Capital as Power" approach has a lot of extremely good properties. This paper discusses the role of assets and how they should inform our understanding of capitalist economics. Pretty great so far (I'm about 1/3 of the way through)

#economics #capitalism