Capitalism
The American Dream — promising democracy and opportunity —often masks a labyrinth of imperial violence, covert operations, and brutal exploitation that keeps the system ticking along.
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Capitalism has an extraordinary ability to assimilate and exploit the energy of any and all cultural movements Brands have always found a way of selling the image of outsiders back to insiders, but, partly as a result, charismatic outsiders do not really exist anymore. Every new cultural idea, however radical or subversive, gets absorbed into
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As brutal acts of occupation and annexation in the contemporary world show us, from Gaza to Ukraine, the denial of the right to self-determination is a common practice by imperial states. Such denial regularly goes hand in hand with the racialization and dehumanization of the Indigenous population.
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GoFundMe is a grim monument to our neoliberal age. It has become an essential means to solicit and receive cash assistance during times of crisis – something that the government and insurance companies are increasingly either unable or unwilling to do. But alongside a demonstration of human resilience and generosity in the face of tragedy,
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In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them. f the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing
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When a capitalist society lacks credible forms of working-class organization, workers’ pursuit of individual self-interest is a rational decision. Without labor unions and workers’ parties, the costs of taking collective action against the capitalist class become unreasonably high. Only when working-class organization exists do we see a systemic, collective challenge to capitalism.