#Capitalism

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

You know, I don't actually love the "how did Democratic manage not to thrash Trump" line, because it ignores how alluring fascism can be, despite its absurdities.The real question is,

Zipps

p_zippers

So I’ve read at least twenty romance novels since October—they’re the only thing I was able to focus on during my peak election anxiety. The vast majority f/f, mostly from

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

OlufemiOTaiwo

actually let me just get this out of the way. Overall, the broad points we made (largely ignored in this response) are:1) the racial capitalism argument that racism plays a

Leigh Phillips

Leigh_Phillips

You get the impression from the eco-socialists and degrowthers that humanity wouldn’t face the threat of climate change or biodiversity loss if it weren’t for capitalism (or rather, if it

Yuen Yuen Ang

yuenyuenang

Old Cold War frame of binary opposites (authoritarian-communism vs. democratic-capitalism) won't work understanding Sino-American competition todayNo doubt, CCP is an authoritarian regime, AND with an authoritarian revival under Xi, but

sneha

magicanarchist

the malignant ignorance of centrists / liberals is insidious. nothing is cheap - capitalism hides the price you pay - you know what the price for rabid consumerism is? Apart

theodor w adorable

thoughtbringer

Materialism passes into its own negation now. To be an idealist is the most materialist position lmao. Okay, but actually, the base has lost its power. Just as humans dominate

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The Achilles Heel of a capitalism’s market system is in what economists call externalities: the human, societal & environmental costs of economic activity completely externalized from both buyers & sellers.Externalities

girl, divorce him

girlziplocked

Something that economist @yanisvaroufakis has been talking about quite a bit this year is the idea that the world absolutely could have markets without capitalism. We could regulate capitalism out

Alex Nedelcu

alexelcu

1/ Socialism makes these mistakes:1. For some people to win, other people have to lose, economy is a zero-sum game, hence the "class struggle"; see Marx's labor theory of value;2.

T🍊ri the Dumb Lefty Canadian Radical

RodneyTori

Landlords don't create housing. 5.5 empty homes per homeless person in Canada will tell you that. Bosses don't create work they exploit your labour. Most things are work whether it

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themarmalade

it's unfortunate that puritanical christianity that's bled into indvidualism and capitalism is america's culture because man it's made some fucked up ways of thinking and it's weird because it's made

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vexahra

it annoys me when people criticize "dark academia" for being inaccessible and fetishizing wealth because thats the entire point. the aesthetic is an escapist fantasy about being a rich privileged

BobbyPiton

BobbyPiton3

2) Asset Based Tax System. (To fund basic government functions)There is $55 Trillion of wealth in this country. It should be taxed at 1-2% per year. This would raise about

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

“[Anti-capitalism is] the principled, analytical insistence that what isn’t Capitalism exists if and when the dichotomy employer-employee is removed.It isn’t when workers have more income.It isn’t when workers have more

one wag

Theophite

capitalism aside, money is a mechanism to bid on what you would like the world's productive capacity to do. if there is no money in the hands of consumers, it's

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