Perfect emoji to represent the ghoulishness of some people. I found it on this post from Ian Wright which described Capital as a God being worshiped
Perfect emoji to represent the ghoulishness of some people. I found it on this post from Ian Wright which described Capital as a God being worshiped
The article is interesting. I’m not sure I fully understand the argument in it, or maybe am feeling it’s incomplete. I sort of get the idea of capitalism to some extent being a self-reinforcing mechanism, but there is also the conscious class and caste development alongside it done by humans. And without the monopoly on violence that the capitalist state has - or if we are going bigger, the “political power coming from the barrel of a gun” that the capitalist empire has - the exploitative nature of it has little to stand on; the exploited masses would be able to say no without life-threatening consequence.
Yes, it is true that capital cannot be understood as a self sustaining force. It can only exist in a certain environment that has been prepared for it. In this way, the real nature of this “God” is laid bare, as another strange kind of lifeform, that feeds upon humanity. As long as the correct environment is provided, capital continues to reproduce and evolve and its total mass continues to increase. That is until it reaches the limit of how much energy it can extract from the finite human population (tendency of rate of profit to fall).