Rituals of Capitalism
Rituals of capitalism are crucial to develop capitalist narratives as dominant and only narratives. There is no other alternative to capitalism. Like religions, capitalism also relies heavily on rituals to…
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The Eugenics of Public Health
Every day, we see a new assault on public health. While seemingly disparate problems, they are all linked by cause and solution. From cuts in HIV programs, Covid protections, and…
Is genocide just another mechanical work?
“We're back to work.” An Israeli occupation soldier posted a video documenting himself shelling Gaza with heavy artillery after the reignition of the genocidal war on the war-torn region.Viju: In…
What led to the rise of Billionaires?
Since the 1980s, there has been a consistent, rapid rise in the number of billionaires. By 2025, the combined wealth of the richest 1%—those with over $11 million—has reached $44.6…
Trumpism And Neoliberal Crisis
Trump who has emerged from the collapse of the so-called new world economic order appears like the spirit of raw,savage capitalism incarnate.He combines in himself qualities of early capitalist adventurers…
Suicide and Capitalism
Suicide is a moral indictment of contemporary capitalist society, which has failed to create dignified conditions viable for human life. The brutality of alienation, discrimination, exploitation, and inequality in various…
Is the world run by 8 industrial complexes?
When the outgoing US President Joe Biden warned against the domination of the USA by a tech-industrial complex, many people wondered if he in the course of his own Presidency…
Fantasies of Progressive Capitalism
The Nobel laureate economist Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz continues to advocate for capitalism in a progressive form and its potentials for human wellbeing. Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz in his New…
Hegemony and Propaganda: Love Your Servitude!
Today, we are witnessing a profound transformation. We are increasingly impacted by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, data proliferation, data harvesting and sophisticated monitoring of how we think and act. This…
Rise of Sick Society under Capitalism
Mental illness, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and other physical ailments, along with social and emotional distress and economic hardships, are inherent and integral aspects of capitalism and its systems.…
Tyranny of Free Market
The market, as a social and economic institution, is fundamentally a process designed to facilitate human life by bringing consumers and producers together. It ensures economic activities serve the social…
Decoupling ‘The Good Life’ from Capitalism
Rethinking abundance, wellbeing, and security in a post-growth world. To offer a meaningful alternative economic system, I believe it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as…
Liberate Liberalism from Capitalism and Reclaim Liberal Society
The political and moral foundation of liberalism as a movement originated as a critique of feudalism, religion, monarchy, and conservative traditions. Its primary aim was to ensure individual liberty, egalitarian…
Fantasies of Free Market under Capitalism
The concept of the "free market" under capitalism is often promoted as an emblem of individual consumer choice and a driver of national economic growth and development. The priests of…
Illusions of American Capitalism
The United States of America (USA) is often considered as the "Mecca of Capitalism." Its powerful military-industrial complex, supported by a defence budget of $841.4 billion, makes it one of…
Crude capitalism: How oil greases the wheels of the world market
Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Their goal was to study…
Why do people celebrate the life of corporate philanthropists?
Political leaders, journalists, academicians, sports figures, celebrities, corporate executives, governments, and ordinary citizens alike have expressed their sorrow over the deaths of corporate heads, industrialists, and business leaders such as…
Barbarism of Capitalism
Lenin characterised capitalism in France and Britain as "civilised barbarism," and referred to the so-called Western civilisation as "capitalist barbarism," driven by the "stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires”…
Nature of New Capitalism and old Debates
Capitalism as a global system continues to evolve, continuously reshaping itself, accommodating with the new environment, aligning itself with different forms of regressive, right wing, reactionary, religious and authoritarian powers…
Defending national sovereignty and delinking. A question of class struggle and rights
I would like to present some thoughts from the Indian Marxists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik on national sovereignty and delinking. A crucial matter for the peoples of the world,…
70-hour work week detrimental to both health and productivity
The CEO of OLA, Bhavnish Aggarwal has endorsed a 70-hour work week call given by the Infosys founder Narayana Murthy some time back. He argues against the concept of work…
Capitalism and its Narcissist Culture of Entitlement
Capitalism, with its inherent culture of psychopathic narcissism, nurtures a pervasive consumerist mindset of entitlement. This parasitic mentality enables capitalist entities to thrive off the value generated by the labour…
Reclaim Free Trade
Right-wing reactionaries assert that they uphold the concept of free trade under the banner of individual liberty, often referred to as consumer liberty. The Hayekian forces argue that free trade…
The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations: Part II, Schizophrenia, Modern Art and Western History Part II
In Part I of this article Bruce Lerro described how when the left brain gets out of control the results can be either schizophrenia or modern art. In Part II…
Reject the Glorification of the Ruling Class and Their Capitalist Ideologies
In the broader social and collective conception, ideals such as human happiness, freedom, democracy, peace, equality, justice, solidarity, and prosperity have been either totally neglected or pushed aside as irrelevant…
Digital Capitalism and its Techno Feudal Order
Feudalism managed to survive in different stages of its history. As a social, economic, political, and cultural system that emerged in the Middle Ages, has shown remarkable resilience by adapting…
Meditation and Capitalism
The working masses have been practicing meditation for centuries to survive the ever-alienating ordeals of various forms of patriarchy, feudalism, and capitalism. Meditation has become a coping mechanism to confront…
Pull Down Their Trousers!!
First we need to get the ' Right ( meaning ' Left' ) people in government. What needs be done is for the public to finally, in mass, understand that…
Capitalism as a Criminal Enterprise
Capitalism operates as a system that many argue is akin to a criminal enterprise, one that exploits both labour and nature in pursuit of ever-increasing profits. This economic model thrives…
Combating Capitalism and Imperialism in the 21st Century – Some Experience from Kenya
Capitalism and imperialism have been exposed as anti-people forces like never before by their sponsorship of the genocide of the Palestinian people by their special agent, ‘Israel’, an illegal country created…
Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival: A Theoretical Autopsy
Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The…
Perverted Society under Global Capitalism
Capitalism has managed to establish a perverted society where the individuals who construct homes often endure homelessness, those who produce food often go to bed hungry, and those who build…
Airliners Fall Apart in the Sky — What Is a Communist Solution?
Lately, airliners have lost parts and suffered equipment malfunctions one week after another. When a United Airlines flight from San Francisco arrived at Medford, Oregon on March 15, people on…
Politics of Confusion and Capitalism
The world is witnessing growing confusion in politics, economy, culture, society, and life on a scale never seen before. There is confusion in different aspects of life perpetuated by the…
It’s Not Personal… Just Business!
Just watched a 2020 documentary entitled ' Dirty Money' that covered a slew of scams perpetrated on American consumers. The segment on Scott Tucker really got my goat. Here's a…
The Most Rich Turns Richer
The world’s richest people got even richer over the past year, Bloomberg’s top-500 billionaire list, published on Wednesday, shows. Some 77% of the billionaires who made it on the list…
Fight Capitalism, Fight Imperialism by Any Means Necessary
The struggle of the people of the global South has gone through many phases in response to the changing nature of the enemy they faces. The people’s enemy has put…
It’s Not Capitalism… It’s MONEYISM!!
Here it is from an old college buddy and confidante of mine, J D. This former progressive talk radio host and socialist thinker nailed it with his commentary on things…
Pantheons and Pathogens of Capitalism
It is natural to think that the progress of science, technology, and the democratic practices of secular nation-states would put an end to primitive cultures characterized by fear, violence, feudalism,…
Capitalism, The Prison Without Walls
There are no walls in this prison It is built on a foundation of fear, intimidation, and threats. Keep the history book closed Keep the historian in prison The prison…
Death, the Crisis of Meaning, and Capitalism
The Moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out…
Why Capitalism Is Leaving the U.S., in Search of Profit
Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the…
How the Greed of a Few Thousand Persons Destroy the Happiness of Millions Year after Year
One of the most shocking aspects of the many glaring injustices of the world is that a few thousand persons earning hugely from the military industrial complex of the USA/NATO…
Capitalism Is Killing the Planet―and It’s Okay To Be Angry About That
After a decade in the climate movement, one tends to get pretty good at avoiding the clawing hands of despair. It’s not that they’re not there, of course—the fear and…
Neoliberalism’s GDP Hoax and its Costly Consequences: Time for a different ‘Development’ paradigm?
It is true that economic growth – meaning rising GDP - is one of the key indicators of rising prosperity in a society though as the Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz…
Things That Can’t Be Said but Must Be Said Anyway
In all societies and social groups, there are rules not only about what can be said but in fact what can be thought. In the West, this has strong tones…
Capitalism, Class, Race, Classist Racist Capitalism and Capitalist Inhuman Nature
There is no god but God: Islamic belief. There is no race but human: scientific fact. The first holds true for many if not all the 1.8 billion Muslims of…
Capitalism: Why we should scrap it
This is a new book by Ted Trainer. You can download it for free (170 pp.) at: https://thesimplerway.info/CAPITALISMBOOK.pdf This book provides a fairly short but sufficiently detailed critical discussion of…
We Need a New Society, Not More Psychiatric Diagnoses
Are you sad because a bout of Covid-19 disrupted your life with illness, bills, or even the death of a friend or family member? Are you anxious because your benefits…
It’s Time to Call It What It Is—A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis
One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires…
Exponential Explosions Shake the World: Radical Reorganiztion Required
It’s only a few months since last we wrote about the dangers of war, pandemics, and climate change reaching a climax (https://multiracialunity.org/2022/05/07/an-exploding-world-requires-radical-change/), but already the crises are intensifying. Inflation,…
Capitalism and Unmaking of Democracy
Rule of law, transparency, accountability and citizenship rights are fundamental pillars of constitutional democracy. These pillars are eroding rapidly. The democratic cultures based on equality, liberty, justice, reason, science, secularism,…
Communication and Capitalism
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Many people would quite correctly argue that the conceptual pair of “communication and capitalism” are more about capitalism than communication and the media. While…
Workers led agenda for the post pandemic world order
The Westphalian capitalism and all its structures, agencies and mouthpieces have promised a world without poverty, inequalities and instabilities. The neoliberal variant of the Westphalian ideology has promised a world…
Modern Ouroboros
‘Society does not consist of individuals, but express the sum of interrelations, the relationships within which this individual stand’- Karl Marx. The interrelation of individuals and the production process was…
Privatizing Nature
The financial wizards of Wall Street have devised a new way to profit from Mother Nature. They’ve created a class of stocks called Natural Asset Companies that will control the…
Naked @ Work – the Neoliberal Workplace
By Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young It is no longer uncommon to hear people saying, I love my work. Is this just the latest stage of capitalism getting us to work harder so that…
Profits Amid Covid: Wall Street And Bankers Share
The two Wall Street investment-banking titans dominating this year’s dealmaking frenzy are opening up their wallets to try to keep their bankers happy – and ratcheting up pressure on rivals…
Wealth, Capitalism and Ideology
by Thomas Klikauer & Meg Young Under the motto, “a different world is possible, a different economy is needed” – a German language magazine called Lunapark was born in 2008. It is dedicated to providing…
Capitalism Is Not Your Friend
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its…
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