This is another of my adapted Twitter/Mastodon threads to be reposted for posterity to the blog.
The original title of this was "An anti-capitalism wail into the ether".
One day I am certain that historians will unanimously call out capitalism as being the most destructive ideology in human history.
From it consuming the earth, which led to imperialism and colonialism over many centuries, through the required expansion of states to sate capital demand, and the ensuing enslavement and murder of those not deemed 'useful' in a pure profit sense - both within their land, and more explicitly and openly, abroad.
Then the continuing wealth disparities, both within countries and between them, with this being a necessity of the system for it to even exist, to allow the ruling class to continue to accrue ever more capital.
The monopoly of those few over the rest of humanity, both in terms of the wealth and power they've captured and controlled, and the oppression and violence that is needed to be enacted on the majority, to make sure that status continues unfettered and unable to be threatened by a peoples movement to end the tyranny.
The environmental damage, and now the obvious, accelerating, climate change caused by the never-ceasing requirement of 'growth' - for the capitalist class's sole real benefit, of course - and the regular replacement of even basic goods under 'planned obsolescence', leading to mass migration, hunger, death and war.
Oh, and not to forget the many wars over the centuries that are effectively fought solely for gaining more capital, through land and human seizure, and even to their destruction, alongside the link to, and creation of, the military-industrial complex and its own insatiable 'need' to be fed.
And that's all before talking about how this economic system and hierarchical structure is being drummed in to every one of the emasculated 'poors' by the ruling class every day of their life, through 'politics', media, and the 'well-off' themselves, so that those masses fight with each other, in the exact same way, to maintain their place in their own hierarchical structure - just as the rich and the state do both with the masses of their own state and others unable to repel this outside of it - at the threat of losing their life and existence for failing to do so.
And yet still, even after all the beatdowns they have taken at the hands of the ruling class under capitalism, no-one is willing to open their eyes to what is really going on to them, and who and why are doing it to them, even as they slog through 'life' and 'work' ever harder and ever longer, for nothing extra in return.
So we all just roll on with simply allowing the powerful to continue to destroy the world for their own greed and hunger for power.
And I think that the centuries of the ruling class duping the working class worldwide into believing that this whole thing is both good and the 'best possible' way for humanity to exist, 'progress' and 'thrive', will be one of the most ghoulish parts of it all.
Sadly what this all means - like I've wrote here before - is that fascism will be what rises when soon this all collapses in on itself, mostly because of the apathy, timidness, and 'team games' that the masses are seemingly happy playing - even if they really don't know it - at the behest of, and in service of, the wealthy.
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