#Capitalism

Mujtaba Rahman

Mij_Europe

V late to this @EmmanuelMacron interview, which as Sophie says, running at 12K words no less, is not for the busy or faint-hearted. But it contains several interesting re-workings &

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

Anti-baizuo thread:1. Bernie Sanders has the clout to upend the status quo if he was actually interested in doing so, but he isn't even slightly interested. 2. He was pretty

władysław willow

_diuturnum

We're always one EPA regulation (and a couple more decades of progress) away from unlocking a path to middle class prosperity for the low-income families. The problem is an anthropological

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

Yes but if you let the poors have free food, how will they learn the value of a hard day’s work?https://twitter.com/supernovaxox/status/1361827908541509632 All joking aside, this is such a perfect example

Kazumi Chin

kazumiochin

Okay so I think honor in OA is basically two things: heteropatriarchial family structure and neoliberal human capital — but moreover, for me, these formations also speak to the way

𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚛Ⓐ𝚍𝚎 𝚂𝚝☭𝚛 🏴🔻

Solidarity_Star

Some people prefer “Social Democracy” over socialism because they either can’t envision a society that is fully free of capitalism or don’t want to be. It’s our job to educate

Jonathan (Gab/Parler: jcho710)

jcho710

1/If you want to know the essential difference bt capitalism & Marxism, capitalism is equality of opportunity. Marxism is equality of outcome, & views any economic hierarchy as ~automatic exploitation.

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

"capitalism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features of an exchange system that result in disempowerment, oppression, or scarcity"socialism": n. a slur that stands in for specific features

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samifouad

Capitalism thrives where there is a lack of information. Simple example:How many places will fire staff if they tell a co-worker their earnings?Nobody would vote for a system designed around

The People's Oracle

PeoplesOracle

I’m realizing that everything about America was a violently enforced artifact of whiteness and patriarchy. There is nothing natural, innovative, or innate about this place. Everything was dreamed up in

read ‘discourse on colonialism’ by aimé césaire!

queersocialism

when i said in my latest that “justice under racial capitalism is an impossibility, a liberal mystification.” i meant that, not just in that our carceral understanding of “justice” is

Melinda Byerley

MJB_SF

Lately, I think a lot about how modern business management principles were perfected by slave owners (per @CC_Rosenthal “accounting for slavery”) And wonder if capitalism can ever be unbound from

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

the "let's compare capitalism to existing socialism" line is mostly flawed from the outset because you're usually comparing global south countries to western imperialists who've built their wealth from robbing

🌽🌽Erica, the white trash socialist🌽🌽™️

herosnvrdie69

I promise you: everything you fear would happen under communism is already happening now under capitalism. All of it. “Have fun in gulags” My dear, most leftists here are prison

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

No. Classical liberals oppose the part of the status quo dubbed 'wokeism.' They think it's illiberal & regressive & want neoliberalismLeft liberals share this perception of wokeists, but don't like

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

Capitalism will always necessarily lead to authoritarianism, because cutthroat dominators will always be the ones to rise to the top of any capitalist system. There's this notion that those who

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