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…
Capitalism
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…
US billionaire wealth increased 70 percent since the start of the pandemic
The wealth of US billionaires has increased by a massive $2.1 trillion, or 70 percent, since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, while tens of millions of working people have…
Occupied by capital
All parts and aspects of life have been occupied by capitals. This is the broader picture. This is one of the facts from reality that composes context of life of…
Problems With Capitalism
One of the problems with capitalism is that it is driving us towards disaster. Greed is good? Adam Smith (1723-1790) maintained that individual self-interest can and should be the principle…
Climate Change Is the Symptom, Capitalism Is the Problem
Our planet cannot handle an eternal growth model. We live in a finite system and capitalist innovation can only take us so far. Eventually we run out of resources. Climate…
Capitalism: The real pandemic
Eighteen months into the latest pandemic, there are quite a few observations that can be made about the origins of, and responses to, the Covid-19 virus. The 24-hour news cycle…
Capitalism and Alienation
Capitalism is deeply unjust. It is a system under which labour power has itself become a commodity and is bought and sold on the market like any other object of…
Working for the Company
In the early 70s the Rolling Stones sized it up for we working stiffs in their song ' Working for the Company': I want a real fine car, fly Miami…
Downward Social Mobility and Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism’s Popular Base Inexorably linked to self-identity molded by the social environment, political identity, shaped by social class and the hegemonic culture, largely determines the individual’s participation in the political…
From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘New Normal’
Sold under the pretence of a quest for optimising well-being and ‘happiness’, capitalism thrives on the exploitation of peoples and the environment. What really matters is the strive to maintain…
The Hell of the Same: Capitalism Breaks Down and Homogenizes Life, Disconnects the Past, Present and Future
“Capitalism is often interpreted as a religion. However, if religion is understood in terms of Religare, as something that binds, then capitalism is anything but a religion because it lacks…
Question and Resist the Power
The coronavirus pandemic has already caused the colossal loss of lives and livelihoods around the world. It continues to create havoc in different countries like Brazil and India. It has…
COVID Times Should Not Be Used As A Cover to Push Narrow Interests
COVID-19 pandemic as well as the lockdowns which followed in most countries have caused a lot of distress . However the wider bitter reality is that these times were also…
A Rejoinder to Chetan Bhagat’s Neoliberal Prescriptions
Chetan Bhagat’s article “Wanted: A bill to fix Indian manufacturing” - published on March 27, 2021 by “The Times of India” - is a paradigmatic example of neoliberal oversimplification. While…
Capitalist Seduction: Behind the veils of the Neoliberal Spectacle
‘Reforming capitalism’ is essentially considered an oxymoron by the academic world that is flummoxed by the ability of capitalism to re-mould, reorient and revamp itself for sustenance without losing the…
NO MORE Sympathy for the Devil(s)
As our nation continues to be occupied by the greedy, the exploitive and the arrogant Super Rich, we need to call them out for what and WHO they are.…
Feudalism in Pakistan and Capitalism the World Over
Pakistani expatriates in the USA have developed a consensus that the genesis of what ails Pakistan can be traced to the feudal system our former colonial masters imposed on India…
Genesis of Capitalism
Marxists advocate bourgeois revolution to break the fetters of feudalism. Capitalist markets are only the most advanced form of exchange. Industrialization was the inevitable outcome of human instincts. In the…
Mercenaries of Capitalism
“Economic Hitmen (EHM) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the Globe of trillions of dollars…funnel money from W.B, US.AID, …into coffers of huge corporations and into the pockets of…
The Great Reset Initiative or The Great Neoliberal Capitalist Lie
As the mutilating power of Coronavirus strikes on lives and livelihoods and create havocs across the globe, the Davos priests of the World Economic Forum have started ‘the Great Reset…
Democracy is a Function of Capitalism
An Overview of Systems of Government. H.L. Mencken said the typical American voter was a boob and the system was booboisie. In order to understand the submission “ Democracy is…
War of the (Financial) Worlds Or Let the Markets Go Wild While the People Go Down
Sometimes things only make sense when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I’m thinking about reality, the very American and global reality clearly repeating itself as 2021…
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is At Our Throats
The invisible hand As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that this,…
The pandemic, the profiteers, the people
To profiteers, this pandemic is very good; it hasn’t hurt their profit-making mechanism. Net worth of US billionaires has soared by $1 trillion – to total $4 trillion – since…
Name Me One Country Where Capitalism Works: A Thirty-Year Reckoning
ORIENTATION When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then…
My New 25% Solution
Please remember that in 1961 when JFK took office the top bracket for federal income tax was at 90%. Now, we all should know that no one in that top…
The Revolutionary Potential of Hope and Utopia
We live in disconcerting times. The wealth of USA’s 643 billionaires has soared by 29% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. On 13 August, 2020, the top twelve US…
The Twin Essence of Our Times
The pestilence of COVID-19 has not only revealed the failures of capitalism but also exuberated over all institutions of capitalism. The culture of crisis and conflicts are organic to capitalism.…
Invasion of the body snatchers: How political science and neoclassical economics zombifies the Yankee population
ORIENTATION Why do political science and neoclassical economics go in one ear and out the other? A human being who has a fully integrated social body understands that economics is…
“Forcible Hindrances”: On the Structural Violence of Capitalism and how People respond to it
In his 1845 book “The Condition of the Working Class in England”, Friedrich Engels wrote: “When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call…
Democracy and the Corporation
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the…
Capitalism is double-billing us: we pay from our wallets only for our future to be stolen from us
Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political,…
Liquid Capitalism: Everyone Drinks it, Swims in it, Drowns in it
The most radical socialists; Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters (Black, White, Latino or Asian); liberal and conservative zealots; diversity and equity gurus; pacifists; denizens of corporates and non-profits; rappers, rockers…
Neoliberalism and its criminal confessions
The pandemic has shaken up the neoliberalism as an economic project of capitalism. The economic architecture of neoliberalism based on austerity, liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation has failed to provide…
Ye Are Many, They Are Few!
A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the question of how oligarchs maintain their grasp on an excessive share…
Amidst pandemic, while billions struggle for survival, billionaires’ wealth tops $10 trillion
Billionaires are “smart” enough. Their wealth now, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars. A new report – Riding the Storm, billionaires insights 2020 – by UBS and PwC reveals…
Termites
Think about this: You know how spiders look, ditto for bees, ants and other assorted bugs. Yet, when it comes to termites, few of us can even sketch how they…
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