#capitalims

[radicalgraff]

Capital Kills

[this-is-sar]

When people begin saying “change is good. I want change,” it is in the system’s interests to look like it’s changing. That’s all it’s really doing, though; it dons the mask of feminist acceptance to regain its footing and then continue with its original mode of operation: appropriating things and making them into products, services, and lifestyles. That’s the whole of marketplace feminism is: reduction of complex ideology into consumables. You know what would be really great? If this Lena Dunham explosion evolves into criticism of co-opting feminist rhetoric (and the words of women of color) for capitalist purposes. Neoliberal capitalism (the kind with that extra Free Market on top) takes the parts of the ideology that have the potential to sell well, and represents them as the extent of it. This is the perfect time to bring that up.

Peter coffin 

[kathleen-patricia-durkin-blog]

by Tony Morrison

First two chapters in PDF. My hope is to create a larger collection of texts such as these to help deconstruct the art world’s 20th Century collaboration with capitalism and imperialism.

[xelipe]

Capitalist Fisherman

Give a man a fish and he eats for one day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime, teach a man about the capital markets and he will raise venture capital from investors to build a fishing company with a large fleet of fishing vessels to over fish the waters, in turn making fish more expensive for consumers and yet hard for independent fishermen to make a living.

[eatcakeanddie]

Life under capitalism is a spiritual battle to keep feeling something, to stay in the emotional game, to hang onto your emotional heartland as a fully functional human being.

Adbusters Magazine