Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok — indi.ca
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck| indi.ca
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck| indi.ca
Questioning both the assumption of infinite growth and the concept of standard of living measured as dollar output per capita.| Family Inequality
By Urvika Mehra, Editor-in-Chief The theme for this month’s articles on Ecotalker is Decolonising Development. Before we assess the ‘colonisation’ of, and subsequent efforts to decolonise, development, it is crucial to understand what development is. The term ‘economic development’ gained traction in the 1950s when most countries belonging to the Global South were in the […]| Arthashastra
By Prapti Mukherjee, Deputy Editor Gothic horror has long been regarded as a genre that draws on ancient folklore to explore contemporary social anxieties. Its proliferation can be traced to the 18th century, a time of sociopolitical reform, class anxiety, and the emergence of industrial capitalism. Adam Smith describes consumption as the ‘sole end and […]| Arthashastra
By Manya Marwah, Deputy Editor Ownership is the hoax that companies are selling as convenience. The truth is, when we subscribe to services online, whether they be streaming platforms or internet plans that allow us to subscribe to digital networks, we are renting the feeling of possession rather than indulging in the actual act of […]| Arthashastra
It’s a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey from my Hollywood history newsletter GROSS, but it’s also an essay about working in space and a comparison with Director Bong’s Mickey 17.| Bowblog
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many eighteenth-century European writers also claimed, made it courteous, that is, 'civil.' 'The terrestrial paradise,' said Voltaire, 'is Paris.'"| Free Association
Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Misunderstanding “Infinite Growth”, 11 de agosto de 2025. Traduzido por Ruan L. Na Foundation for Economic Education, Patrick Carroll (“Responding to Reich, Part 10: How to Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet”, 18 de Fevereiro) tenta explicar como os críticos do capitalismo estão errados em dizer que o crescimento...| Center for a Stateless Society
Oleh: Gary Chartier. Teks aslinya berjudul “We Should Abandon the Term “Capitalism”. Diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Support Ringo by considering becoming his Patron. Mendukung kebebasan berarti menolak penggunaan kekuatan untuk membatasi pertukaran sukarela yang damai. Namun, itu tidak harus berarti bahwa sistem pertukaran sukarela yang damai harus disebut sebagai “kapitalisme.” Sebagian orang...| Center for a Stateless Society
Oleh: Garry Chartier. Teks aslinya berjudul “Embracing Markets, Opposing “Capitalism”. Diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Support Ringo by considering becoming his Patron. Menjadi seorang libertarian berarti menolak penggunaan kekuatan untuk menghalangi pertukaran yang damai dan sukarela. Namun, itu bukan berarti secara otomatis menjadi bentuk dukungan atas kapitalisme. Apakah pernyataan ini masuk akal atau...| Center for a Stateless Society
Por Vishal Wilde. Artículo original: Rethinking Systems for Structuring Time, 24 de Mayo, 2025. Traducido por Felix Hallowkollekt. Repensando los sistemas para estructurar y usar el tiempo El tiempo es fundamental para la existencia y la experiencia humana. Los marcos sociales para estructurar y entender el tiempo y la experiencia temporal han, sin embargo, permanecido...| Center for a Stateless Society
In her debut novel Julius Julius, Aurora Stewart de Peña creates an outsized, funhouse mirror of the advertising industry, one she knows intimately. Drawing on her career of over a decade, the novel sweeps us into the fictional sprawl of the world’s oldest and grandest ad agency: the titular Julius Julius. Divided in three parts, […] The post Creativity and Consumerism are Two Sides of the Same Billboard appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
The coercive nature of jobs within the immigrant detention industrial complex—whether at privately-run ICE facilities in economically disinvested areas or with ICE itself—is not so different from the coercion that drives people to join the military. Read more via Scalawag: ICE and the military use the same playbook—exploiting impoverished communities.| Scalawag
How to understand China's government, political system, socialist market economy, democracy. Professor Zhang Weiwei interview with Ben Norton| Geopolitical Economy Report
The old capitalist Left identifies and states the truth of the problems we face but lies about the results of their actions (because the actions for a solution require dismantling capital). The modern capitalist Right lies about the issues (or denies them altogether) but is ironically honest about the results of their actions.| Josh Beckman
Neoliberalism has sought to become the most efficient system that would fight the Stalinist approach to the appearance of work. Fisher uses the example of Stalin’s White Sea Canal. In the 1930s, this canal was one of the most impressive feats in engineering, but only on the surface. The canal was too shallow to use for most 20th-century cargo. Thus, it was a symbol of production and, more importantly, anti-production at that. Stalin’s USSR would turn this canal into PR. People would photo...| Josh Beckman
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The rich need no protection. — Wendell Phillips. When it comes to listing countries on the basis of the social services they […]| Columns Archives – The Independent
Gary Kalman writes that actions under the second Trump administration to dismantle recent anti-corruption initiatives, including those pioneered during the first Trump administration, will cost dearly the American and global economy and enable many of the nefarious actors President Trump has publicly admonished.| ProMarket
It’s Trump, not Mamdani, who’s having government take over businesses.| The American Prospect
Don't assume you know anything just because you took Econ 101. The post The Economic Myths Supporting The Existence Of Billionaires appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Today on TAP: Trump’s version is a joke. But even our version would have limited benefits.| The American Prospect
Billionaires should not exist. A state producing billionaires has failed: the size of the failure is in proportion to how many billionaires have been created. | Thinkings Space
Byung-Chul Han's "The Palliative Society" critiques contemporary society's aversion to pain, labeling it "algophobia." He argues that this fear leads to superficiality and a loss of meaning, urging a confrontation with discomfort.| Traversing Tradition
In the past two decades, global health governance has undergone a quiet revolution, shaped less by sovereign states and more by the growing influence of private capital. The World Health Organisati…| Developing Economics
In the unceasing pursuit of economic and financial success, many companies often overlook a critical aspect of their operations: human rights. This harsh reality, known to many, has been corroborated by scientific research, particularly a study titled “Big profits, big harm? Exploring the link between firm financial performance and human rights misbehavior.” The Study: An Overview The research, conducted by Elisa Giuliani and her team, … The post How Companies Sacrifice Human Rights on ...| Wise & Shine
A country that has both characteristics can do all of the typical rationing and enticing of domestic supplies. But it can also access foreign supplies in a very low-cost manner. Specifically, highe…| Economist Writing Every Day
Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.| Climate & Capitalism
“There is a general agreement that the Y2K transition went more smoothly than any of us would have imagined. In fact, as noted in the week since the rollover, some … Continue reading →| LibrarianShipwreck
Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. We met up recently in Chicago at the annual Socialism Conference. We were both on a panel with other| Hard Crackers
Nana Chinara is a gleaming glitterbeam, movement art conjurer, and PURPOSE-full Organizer. This excerpted letter embodies Nana's brilliance and power supported and affirmed by the values and collective support of PURPOSE Productions. Support Nana's ongoing organizing through their own Chinara Rituals, the collaborative work of Get Dis War Dance, or simply pay them directly [...] The post A #LiberatedLifestyle Statement: Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy appeared f...| PURPOSE Productions
How are you? This is a question I've asked and been asked more frequently in the last three months than I have experienced in my lifetime. I have felt profoundly loved and deeply overwhelmed. The next question a few will ask is, “How is PURPOSE Productions?” This is a question I can answer easily. [...] The post How is PURPOSE Productions doing? appeared first on PURPOSE Productions.| PURPOSE Productions
We are creating cultural innovators and sustaining cultural legacies... no, actually we are cultivating the cultural innovators that will sustain our cultural legacies. A little while ago, our Leader Sydnie Mosley shared a tweet (with a live drawing by Flash Rosenberg) that resonated in my soul. It suggested that most folk would rather be safe [...] The post Would you rather be safe or FREE? appeared first on PURPOSE Productions.| PURPOSE Productions
By Jigisha Sharma, Deputy Editor In the age of democracy and ‘Consumer is the Boss’, the power ideally rests in the hands of the citizens and the consumers; and what do we do when we’re dissa…| Arthashastra
Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up homes across the US and West, driving up rent and cost of living. Economist Michael Hudson explains how corporate landlords are a result of financialized capitalism.| Geopolitical Economy Report
Some young adults blame "capitalism" for just about everything. But it's only a convenient scapegoat.| Reason.com
The completely just proposition that the worker is to receive the entire value of his product can be reasonably interpreted to mean either that he is to receive the full present value of his product now or that he is to get the entire future value in the future. But ... the socialists interpret it to mean that…| The Libertarian Institute
Many, many people across the political spectrum are concerned about the dire state of government schools today. Not only are too many students arriving at college illiterate, innumerate, and ignorant, but many have had to survive a dangerous and destructive time in government schools. Free society advocates argue that a market solution—thriving competition—is the key … Continue reading "I Run a Private School, and I’m Against School Vouchers"| Marsha Familaro Enright
Please go to this link to read this article in Portuguese.| Marsha Familaro Enright
Please go to this link to read this article in Portuguese.| Marsha Familaro Enright
This piece was originally published by Real Clear Markets on May 15, 2019. For decades, leftists have championed socialism while ignoring its mountains of skulls, from Russia to Venezuela. They dismiss The Black Book of Communism, a careful tally of the 60-plus million deaths resulting from the deliberate actions of socialist regimes. Some socialist-leaning people … Continue reading "Capitalism is the Crucial Protector of the Smallest Minority"| Marsha Familaro Enright
I have loved the sculpture of the ancient Greeks since I first saw it in a book, at the age of 12. That’s when I read the Greek myths and knew I had found my religion. The worship of Man. On Friday, June 30, 2018 with delightful friends in tow, I made a pilgrimage to … Continue reading "We Need Art To Deify The Greats Of Capitalism"| Marsha Familaro Enright
“Liberating Education” by Marsha Familaro Enright, is the final chapter in Common Ground On Common Core. This chapter discusses the history of education in the U.S. since the time of the Pilgrims, and what education would like in a fully free society and laissez-faire market. Click on the link to read the PDF of this … Continue reading "Liberating Education – What Education Would Be Like In A Fully Free Society"| Marsha Familaro Enright
By Marsha Familaro Enright President, The Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, sponsor of The Great Connections Program The Economic Stage is Set In recent decades, the creative destruction of capitalism has changed the face of the U.S. economy, destroying many former giants of industry like TWA and Montgomery Wards, integrating others into colossal conglomerates, like GE. … Continue reading "Flourishing Through Education in the Creative Destruction of Capitalism: The Science and Educa...| Marsha Familaro Enright
Education As If Individuals Matter Jerry Kirkpatrick, Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education (Claremont, CA: TLJ Books, 2008), 212 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Marsha Familaro Enright Jerry Kirkpatrick, a professor of International Business and Marketing at California Polytechnic Institute, has come out with another book applying his passion for … Continue reading "Review of Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in...| Marsha Familaro Enright
This film celebrates the productive virtue, passion, creativity, and heroism of entrepreneurs around the globe. By Marsha Familaro Enright The New Individualist, Jan/Feb 2008 — This past September, I was thrilled to see The Call of the Entrepreneur, a new documentary by The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, headed by Roman … Continue reading "The Call of the Entrepreneur"| Marsha Familaro Enright
As September 11th approaches, Americans remember the morning in 2001 when the World Trade Center turned to rubble. It is a fitting time to consider the nature of the civilizations that collided that day—and how to defend ours. In their quest to establish a worldwide caliphate, radical Islamists invoke morality, claiming they have God’s sanction … Continue reading "Defending Western Civilization"| Marsha Familaro Enright
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]Regarding Abundance| In Medias Res
“When people write about the working-class world, which they rarely do, it is most often because they have left it behind,” admits Didier Eribon, in his 2009 French memoir of class transition, Returning to Reims. “They thereby contribute to perpetuating the social illegitimacy of the people they are speaking of in the very moment of speaking about them.” But he can only acknowledge this problem... The post “I Will Write to Avenge My Race”: Baglin, Louis, and Ernaux on Class Transi...| Public Books
The abundance movement, which seeks to lift the burden of inefficient regulation off the private sector to unleash equitable growth, has become the policy platform for many liberals. Dylan Gyauch-Lewis argues that the movement fails to account for the costs of externalities that many of the regulations it derides seek to address.| ProMarket
Blog 'He Who Feeds You, Controls You' by A Growing Culture - In 1984, a young African president stood before his people...| Local Futures
They came with promises of transformation: thousands of jobs, surging salaries and a foothold in the booming electric vehicle market. Read more via Scalawag: A startup promised 45,000 EV jobs to struggling towns. They're still waiting..| Scalawag
A fierce political struggle is brewing in Memphis. On one side is the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, whose company xAI quietly set up shop in an abandoned factory this past summer. On the other side is a broad cross-section of Memphis residents, led by the low-income, historically Black neighborhoods located nearby. Read more via Scalawag: Musk's Memphis xAI data center and the making of a 'Digital Delta'.| Scalawag
This graphic novel depicts the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War—one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in US History.| Scalawag
There is no doubt that 2024 will be a watershed year for world democracy. The United States appears to be well on track to voting an end to the great democratic experiment begun 250 years ago by Messrs Jefferson & co. There’s been a ‘lurch to the right’ elsewhere: the Netherlands, for instance, are organising … More 2024: a watershed year for world democracy| Matthew Wright
The end of the world at the end of the world| indi.ca
Alyssa Battistoni’s ‘Free Gifts’ sets itself the ambitious goal of demonstrating how capitalism’s distortions of our relationship to nature imposes limitations on human freedom. But without a constructive vision or concrete political prescriptions, that freedom remains rather abstract.| Damage
By Ryan Augustine August 7, 2025 Anno Domini This is an article which I have hoped to write for some time.| Fitzpatrick Informer
Economist Michael Hudson: Western powers designed international system to benefit American corporations at expense of Global South, how to resist US neocolonialism.| Geopolitical Economy Report
by Mel Carrington. Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from toxic masculinity to misinformation, inequality, extremist ideologies and the big daddy of them all, the climate emergency. No shortage of crises for the authors to diagnose. However, when it comes […] The post Never waste a good crisis – a realist’s view of the Hay Festival first appeared on Just Stop Oil.| Just Stop Oil
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Doing so might help them survive an era of school closures, but at what cost to the mission they profess?| Christianity Today
Multi-volume Danish series seems to be quite the fad at the moment; I loved Solvej Balle’s excellent On the Calculation of Volume 1, and now we have Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s seven-part ‘Scandinavian…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
A gold bar is deceptively heavy. Four hundred troy ounces, about 12.5 kilograms, of ultra-high-purity gold formed into an ingot – a sort of slender brick crossed with a pyramid. The gold bar in question is used in an horrific crime – the bashing of a man on a rural property in the heart of … Continue reading Universality | Natasha Brown| This Reading Life
So, what is capitalism? The answer will depend on who's being asked. Language, like markets, basic law, and customs, is a spontaneous order. No one plans it. Words drift in their meaning in ways that probably can’t be fully explained. Language is a tool that people use to think and communicate, so it’s adapted according to needs, changing circumstances, and even confusion.| Free Association
Having led his supporters into the looking-glass world of conspiracy, the US president finds he is trapped inside it.| New Statesman
By Ryan Augustine July 24, 2025 Anno Domini The Economic Calculation problem, or the true cost problem In a command economy, the state tells the...| Fitzpatrick Informer
I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself by trying to live life in my fullest possible manner, but once in while I still notice that sinking feeling that has plagued me since I have known consciousness. Intellectually I know it is just...| Winnie Lim
For economic-system reform, some think we need bottom-up change, and others think it must be top-down. The correct answer: all of the above.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
金持ちは文字通り、明日が来ないかのようにマシュマロを貪り食う。 The post なぜ金持ちの子供は我慢ができて、貧しい子供は我慢できない（ように見えた）のか first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
134 people have died and 101 remain missing after the Guadalupe River in central Texas overflowed as a result of 6.5 inches of rain falling over the course of three hours on the morning of July 4th...| CovertAction Magazine
THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC CONTRACTION Foreword The great fact of our times – “everywhere visible, nowhere acknowledged” – is the ending and reversal of economic growth. In Henry’s paradox, we looked…| Surplus Energy Economics
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.| Spectre Journal
A prior post made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one percent” economy and the rest of us. In what ways is the wealth owned by the super-billionaires an “unfair” extraction from the rest of US society? How can we account for the very rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of the richest 1 percent of US wealth holders since 1980? The answer seems to largely turn on the rapid expansion in wealth represen...| Understanding Society
“This is how cyberlibertarianism works: it is not so much about party politics as it is about controlling the terms of discourse and the conversation itself. This ensures that only … Continue reading →| LibrarianShipwreck
I sat down recently for a chat with my old friend Bryan Caplan.| Free Association
This is part II of posts on why I am highly skeptical of the argument that we need to understand the genetic basis of eating disorders in order to improve outcomes. If you would like to leave a comment, please read Part I as well. I worry about the implications of focusing on genetics and neurobiology in identifying causes of and solutions to eating disorders in the context of a neoliberal society. When I was an adolescent, finding out that eating disorders have a genetic component allevi...| Science of Eating Disorders
An analysis shows that government requests for user data from tech companies are increasing dramatically. An email provider specialising in encryption refers to this as ‘surveillance capitalism’. Authorities from EU countries are stepping up their surveillance practices by requesting more and more data from large US internet companies. They received almost fifteen times more user […] Der Beitrag Massive increase in data requests at Google & Co while Trump cancels talks about EU-US e-evi...| Matthias Monroy
‘Two-Tier Kier’ is no longer a smear following the compromise made with his back benchers to only do over one section of disabled people in the UK. Like some inverse promo for loan deals or Internet packages, the government will lay off existing disability claims in exchange for duffing up people with the new ones. … Continue reading Health poverty is the challenge; Labour is the disability!→| AnarCom Network
Capitalism eats itself: King Erysichthon was cursed with an insatiable hunger by goddess Demeter, until he consumed everything he had and ate himself. Sound familiar? As well as cutting climate change incentives to save the planet, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is now cannibalising his own MAGA supporters in red states in order to give the super-rich even more tax cuts. The post Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the Curse of Erysichthon first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
Steroid use is up, especially among young people seeking to display a particular physique online. The turning of the male gaze upon itself represents a radical form of alienation—and one with some nasty side effects to boot.| Damage
The New Practice space at TU Berlin runs a series of talks called LOOPS. Together with my friend Malte I was invited to talk a bit about “Fascist AI”. How capitalism, fascism and AI narratives are very closely aligned and (re)produce one another. I enjoyed giving the talk (I rarely do those together with others) […]| Smashing Frames
I spent a lot of last year trying to understand why companies treated the employees they rely on for success so poorly — The Man Who Broke Capitalism; Lights Out; The Idea Factory; AI Snake Oil; Leaders Eat Last; and so on are all part of that journey. At the time I was a bit fixated […]| Made by Mikal
Democratic socialism reduces mankind into economic elements. The Catholic Church rejects that human beings can be so understood. The post What is Democratic Socialism? appeared first on CAPP-USA.| CAPP-USA
See a full list, sorted by subject, at New items include From Slave Plantations to the Vatican, Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain It, Wars in Ukraine and Canaan encouraged by the USA, US Hegemo…| Gwydion Madawc Williams
Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism…| Climate & Capitalism
This Week’s Snapshot of Planetary Phase Shift Signals| Age of Transformation
This week’s headline is a sobering call – our fossil-fueled global system is brittle. Accelerating the shift to renewables and diplomacy isn’t just idealism; it’s the practical path to reduce the war and chaos that threaten everyday security.| Age of Transformation
We need to remember that and not only accept but embrace it.| Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
Chuang Kollektiv Trumps Handelskrieg ist zurück – größer, lauter und irgendwie noch dümmer. Manche sagen, dieses Mal sei es anders. Aber wie die meisten Fortsetzungen ist die Handlung vertraut. Die Figuren sind abgenutzt. Die Filmemacher scheinen entschlossen zu sein, immer wieder die gleichen Szenen zu drehen. Wie wird er enden? Wahrscheinlich verdammt ähnlich wie das […]| NO
A prior post made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one percent” economy and the rest of us. In what ways is the wealth owned by the super-billionaires an “unfair” extraction from the rest of US society? How can we account for the very rapid … Continue reading "Stock ownership as system-wide exploitation?"| Understanding Society
Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enterprises constitute a minority of the population; they hire w…| Understanding Society
Last week the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) took place in London. I quote from the AHE website: “Formed in 1999 to provide an annual conference where all heter…| Michael Roberts Blog
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This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio content. New subscriptions can be taken out here, and start with the […] The post Policing the Wastelands appeared first on Salvage.| Salvage
The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale oil industry fueled capitalism's expansion| www.theartnewspaper.com
Note:found this as a draft: Only published it 25/11/2024 but the published on date is correct. It is probably incomplete It's always an honour to be asked by an organization to become a Board member or Advisory Panel member to be "a voice" with "lived experience". And it is indeed empowering to meet with powerful people and get an insight into how decisions are made "at the top". But| Reflections on the Neurodiversity Paradigm
CCS illusion only delays the elimination of fossil fuels…| Climate & Capitalism
