Capitalism is not human nature

One of the most powerful delusions of the #deathcult is our belief that capitalism is human nature, the way we organize work, money, resources and society is how the world works, that there is no alternative. The first step is capitalism is not a natural or spontaneous order, it is a political and economic system that has been built, enforced and maintained through institutions, laws, violence and control. We built it, we can change it. Capitalism rests on two central relationships: wage labour and private investment, most people have no choice but to sell their ability to work for wages, while a relatively small group controls investment and therefore has enormous influence over what gets produced, why it gets produced and who benefits. The result is production organized around profit rather than human need. This arrangement did not emerge because people naturally wanted to accumulate wealth, it was built through historical processes of enclosure, dispossession and the removal of…

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