“Viva Capitalism!” (But take a good look before you cheer.)
EXPOSING CAPITALISM'S MULTITUDE OF VICES AND INCURABLE PROBLEMS—
FROM INGRAINED RACISM and TERRIBLE ECONOMIC CRISES & EXPLOITATION TO ENDLESS WARS
JOHN OLIVER
Edited by Patrice Greanville
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Normally we do not applaud establishment comedians, especially these days when almost the whole tribe is busy selling us the Biden brand of WOKE imperialism. Just watch turncoat Stephen Colbert any night and see what he does. A strong stomach is required. But, there are no absolutes, and from time to time, some people stick their necks a little outside the fetid capitalist conformity bubble, and strike a blow for sanity and decency by simply showing what capitalism does when left to its sociopathic instincts—which, for those who insist on forgetting—is pretty much the American way. John Oliver probably will never be a George Carlin, but these days, when it comes to the mainstream comics, he's the best we got.—PG |
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John Oliver discusses freight trains and railroads, how they’ve put profits over safety, and, crucially, what shows he watched as a child that explains…everything.
Take Capitalism Out of Our Railroads!
Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system. The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological “death spiral.” Many of the symptoms of the failure of capitalism are well-known. Nevertheless, they are often attributed not to capitalism as a system, but simply to neoliberalism, viewed as a particular paradigm of capitalist development that can be replaced by another, better one. A critical-historical analysis of neoliberalism is therefore crucial both to grounding our understanding of capitalism today and uncovering the reason why all alternatives to neoliberalism and its capitalist absolutism are closed within the system itself.
Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?” Monthly Review vol. 70, no. 9 (February 2019), pp. 1-24.
Sociopolitical critic Patrice Greanville is The Greanville Post's founding editor.Print this article
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