Post by @socialrev • Hey
Anyone read this one?
How do my fellow lensters feel about capitalism?
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- "Capital originates with the exploitation of labor, and takes shape as this is subjected to the peculiar forces of money. Its nucleus is the abstraction of human transformative power into labor-power for sale on the market. The nascent capitalist economy was fostered by the feudal state, then took over that state (often through revolution), centering it about capital accumulation. With this, the capitalist mode of production was installed as such - after which capital began to convert society into its image and created the conditions for the ecological crisis. The giant corporations we rightly identify as ecological destroyers are not the whole of capital, but only its prime economic instruments. Capital acts through the corporations, therefore, but also across society and within the human spirit."
- "Since each boundary/barrier is a site for commodity formation, this becomes the prescription for the "generalized commodity production" that is one of the capital's hallmarks. The prospect dear to capitalists, of making businesses out of trading pollution credits, or the pharmaceutical industry's search for new antibiotics to meet the new diseases set forward by ecological destabilization itself, are examples of this kind. The constant creation of anxieties and needs by the restless movement of the system is constantly funneled into the circuits of new commodity activity. Does capitalism create an isolated, anxiety-ridden self whose survival requires being placed upon a market? Well, then, capital will also step in to create commodities to service this tensely narcissistic state of being - articles of fashion and image, with technologies to service these and a cultural apparatus to go along - in the case of fashion, say, a whole range of magazines, cosmetics, sexual aids, photographic studios, advertising agencies, public relations firms, psychotherapies, and so on."
- Haven't really looked into it tbh. What do you think? Are you just beginning to learn about it?