You should not need to be told, in 2026, why #capitalism and #liberalism are bad.
#PrivateProperty, #WageLabor, and #commodity #production are inherently #exploitative and #competitive, and always lead to #crisis, #inequality, and #imperialism.
The #progressive unfolding of #history toward #metaphysical #rights of the #individual to own, buy, and sell #property (assured by the #state of course) is a #narrative tool that diverts us from #ClassConsciousness and idealizes exploitation.
Hype for the Future 68A: Is Work a Symptom of Capitalism?
Preamble In the vast majority of modern corporate jobs, income streams remain unethically minimized, and upward mobility is largely restricted in the same manner. However, what if work is a symptom of an overall hostile and unethical economic system? Introduction While not every job is a symptom of an unethical society, far too many people are working in corporate chains, many of which are unethical to begin with. Regarding even the essentials of food and drinks, profit is served over […]Hype for the Future 15D: Anticapitalist and Degrowth Proofs
While capitalism may not be morally equivalent to human slavery and slave labor, numerous fundamental similarities exist. Even though society has supposedly advanced beyond legally enforced racism, sexism, and even ableism, capitalism continues to promote all three of the discriminatory practices. novaTopFlex believes that capitalism is fundamentally a crisis and essentially the equivalent of human slavery and slave labor, even without the moral connotations. Unfortunately, modern day, […]Today in History — September 2, 1789
The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
Alexander Hamilton became its first Secretary.
I love the musical.
I don’t even mind taxes all that much.
Annoying, sure—but fine.
But goddamnit, I hate wage labor.
And that’s all I can think about.
#ThisDayInHistory #Hamilton #USTreasury #WageLabor #Capitalism #LaborHistory
Just published a piece about working bar shifts where the sky is your real boss.
Rain, bad timing, the mythical “discerning guest,” and why sometimes stoicism is the only thing keeping you from losing your mind behind the stick.
Read it here → https://substack.com/home/post/p-172353285
#BartenderLife #ServiceIndustry #Labor #Weather #PoolBar #HospitalityTruths #WageLabor #PhilosophyOfWork
"'The conflict between wage labor and capital, while it has by no means disappeared, nonetheless lacks the all-embracing importance that it possessed in the past.' -- Murray Bookchin"
Wow. Murray Bookchin was a fucking dumbass. Don't be like him. Read Marxist theory and understand the very prevalent conflict between wage labor and capital that very well still exists.
#communism #socialism #marxism #capitalism #wagelabor #capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
Lately I've been trying to work on an essay about how I feel a lot of contemporary discourse around #neurodiversity in workplaces suffers from a failure to really grasp the primary, fundamental social function of #WageLabor. It seems very commonly argued (if sometimes only implicitly) that #neurodivergent people have unique talents that can benefit businesses' "bottom lines" if only they are unlocked by appropriate accomodations. Therefore, employers who don't embrace neurodiversity in their workplaces are clearly just uninformed about its upsides, and from there it follows that they can be persuaded to become more #autism- / #ADHD- / etc-friendly through education and awareness campaigns.
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In his brilliant dissertation, “Property and the Power to Say No,” Karl Widerquist cites an exchange that occurred between Union soldiers and a group of newly emancipated people in Savannah, Georgia. When asked what they needed to secure their freedom:
“The group chose at its spokesman Garrison Frazier, a Baptist minister who had purchased the liberty of his wife and himself in 1856. Asked what he understood by slavery, Frazier responded that it meant one person's ‘receiving by irresistible power the work of another man, and not by his consent.’ Freedom he defined as ‘placing us where we could reap the fruit of our own labor, and take care of ourselves;’ the best way to accomplish this was ‘to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor.’”
There’s a remarkably clear and clear-eyed understanding of freedom and unfreedom from people who had undeniable first-hand knowledge of slavery.
Many people, when they hear the phrase “wage slavery,” take offense to the idea of comparing the horrors of chattel slavery to the quite often banal insults of wage labor. But the thing that defines slavery isn’t “bad working conditions;” it’s the absence of the power to say “no.”
And both Douglas and Frazier were quite clear: wage laborers are as unfree as they were as slaves.
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https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a73bad11-7004-43f2-a02d-5ed151078476
This thesis examines the relationship between property and freedom in both the continuous sense of the word and the status sense of the word. Status freedom concerns the distinction between a free person and an unfree person. Continuous freedom concerns the continuum of liberties that make a person
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