This transcript of an academic discussion session from Feb 2025 is really worth reading to get a sense of the ideas behind the "Capital as Power" perspective. Features the fediverses own @blair_fix

https://capitalaspower.com/2025/02/capital-as-power-in-the-21st-century/

#economics #capitalaspower #CasP #finance #MMT

Are you interested in capital as power? Do you like writing essays?

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In this piece on modern anarchism, Daniel Baryon asks the big questions:

"Why has this society accumulated so much power, yet somehow fails to meet the most basic needs of humanity?"

#anarchism #capitalaspower

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/07/a-modern-anarchism-part-1-anarchist-analysis/

Adam Marshall discusses how he's using the theory of capital as power to understand climate conflict.

#capitalaspower

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/05/environmental-conflict-capital-as-power-and-a-nice-trip-to-london/

If you're interested in #capitalaspower, here's the syllabus for Jonathan Nitzan's course 'Global Capital'.

The reading list alone is incredibly useful.

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/03/global-capital-political-economy-of-capitalist-power-yorku-gs-pols-6285-3-0-graduate-fall-term-2022-23/

For Polish speakers interested in #capitalaspower, here's a review of the book by Mateusz Pietryka.

'Kapitał, by rządzić, musi sabotować postęp'

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/03/pietryka-kapital-by-rzadzic-musi-sabotowac-postep/

Considering how great the #Russia #war on #Ukraine is doing for the #arms and #energy industries, why would Ukraine's sponsors want anything but to keep the war going with just enough ups, downs and uncertainty? Victory or defeat would just dry up the milking cow.

#Economy #Finance #CapitalAsPower #Capital

משקיעות שקראו כבר ב-2001 (שמונה שנים לפני "תחילת שיטות המדידה") את "מרווחי מלחמה לדיבידנדים של שלום" מאת שמשון ביכלר ויונתן ניצן, או את ספרם Capital as Power, או מכירים את התאוריה שעל שמה הוא קרוי, לא הופתעו מהמחזור הנוכחי: קואליציית עסקי השלום נחלשת, קואליציית האנרגיה-מלחמה מתחזקת.

הספר, גם במהדורה העברית, להורדה חינם (כמו רוב רובם של פרסומי הצמד) באתר שלהם:
https://bnarchives.yorku.ca/229/

וכאן במסטודון אפשר לעקוב אחרי
@blair_fix

#CapitalAsPower
#כלכלה #קפיטל #קפיטליזם #מניות #השקעות #גלובלי

When most people think of capitalism, they think of companies like Apple, or Amazon, or Tesla, but they rarely extend their analysis to areas such as film. But film is one of the most important areas for capitalists to control, because people dont listed to facts, they listen to stories. And when you control what gets said in the stories, you control the culture that emerges from the consumption of those stories.

"In the interests of profit, capitalists attempt to control the scope and capacity of social creativity through the rights of ownership, which is a type of authority that rests on the greater social system of private property."
- @notes_on_cinema

https://notesoncinema.com/2021/12/14/making-culture-rational-with-power/

#CapitalAsPower

The basis for authority under feudalism was religion. Kings and their subsequent hierarchies were vested with power because religious institutions maintained that a deity had prescribed that it should be so.

Under Capitalism, the basis for authority can be found in the twin dominators of legal and economic ideology, but as the economic ideology wanes, rather than being replaced by liberatory ideologies, we are seeing the resurgence of religious language in everyday life, and this does not bode well for the future if what we seek is freedom. Because rather than religions of indigenous or marginalized communities, we are seeing the resurgence of the dominant organized religions, especially Christianity.

"If you take away the opiate of wealth, however, people will quickly return to their religious drug of choice. It happened after the Soviet Union collapsed (Pankhurst, 2012). And it seems to be happening within anglophone countries today. The growth engine has slowed and the gains that remain are going almost exclusively to the rich. If these trends continue (and the linguistic patterns that go with them), the future may look less like a post-capitalist utopia, and more like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale."
- @blair_fix

https://capitalaspower.com/2022/12/fix-have-we-passed-peak-capitalism/

#CapitalAsPower