It always seems impossible until it's actually true. -- Nelson Mandela ---- "Certainly, the political system holds all the levers of power to perpetuate the system of physical and intellectual exploitation... It manipulates minds through the means of communication at its disposal. It steers our consumer choices according to political, financial, commercial, and industrial interests." It shapes our way of thinking on all important social issues: nuclear power, pensions, the fight for environmental protection, inflation, rising food prices, healthcare, Covid-19, wars, immigration... It justifies their lies by calling on experts (military personnel, economists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, professors-all generals, colonels, commanders, or PhDs with 30 years of post-secondary education). God knows there are a whole lot of them parading across the TV screens, talking about all these things that are supposed to be beyond the grasp of the average person. Thank goodness they dedicate themselves to explaining the whys and wherefores. As if we were ignorant, incapable of understanding for ourselves. Their interventions, their analyses, are delivered like lectures. They discourse and exchange ideas amongst themselves, without any dissenting voices. With a few minor differences, they all agree. You just have to listen to them and repeat them endlessly on the airwaves every day for weeks on end. Months and years and on all television channels to understand that this disinformation strategy is orchestrated at the highest level of the State.
All these experts, serving the political establishment, sell themselves shamefully for a few thousand euros. They are propagandists for the capitalist system and contribute to its perpetuation. Because, according to them, there is no salvation outside of capitalism.
Capitalism is using every available resource
There's the labor market, as they say, where the worker sells their commodity, "labor power," at the lowest price, while the manager, the engineer, etc., sell their intellectual knowledge for a slightly higher sum. This is what's called capitalist exploitation.
Then, the financial market continues to wreak havoc (speculation, speculative bubbles, inflation, etc.). This yields immediate returns and requires no large material investments (factories, machinery, or hiring employees). A few clicks on the computer in a matter of seconds can translate into fabulous profits.
The system is constantly evolving
With the health crisis, the scientific and research market has become a colossal commodity. It has expanded rapidly, and the profits reaped by pharmaceutical companies were immediately substantial (vaccines). The three major pharmaceutical companies-Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna-are generating $65,000 in profit per minute thanks to their COVID-19 vaccines.
The knowledge market has become a highly sought-after commodity. You should see all those eggheads crowding into television studios to dispense their analyses with emphasis and arrogance.
Admittedly, the return isn't immediate. But it's a long-term investment. The brainwashing has effectively shaped our minds, making us completely dependent. It's leading us down paths that will inexorably result in the destruction of the planet and the end of all human life on Earth.
Those in power always have two irons in the fire
First of all, excessive consumption.
They have advertising at their disposal. It invades our daily lives; in the supermarkets of consumerism, the incentives to buy are constant: two or even three products for the price of one. Buy today, pay in a month! Credit companies are springing up like mushrooms. All these benefactors of humanity think only of our happiness and saving the planet. They provide us with financial aid that will never compensate for the cost of the purchases and renovations required for us to buy electric cars and electric bikes at astronomical prices; to undertake insulation work on our houses and apartments, which are veritable energy sieves; and to install solar panels, made in China, one of the world's biggest polluters.
Then, in the same breath, they ask us to reduce our consumption and be frugal. They try to make us feel guilty for not being eco-responsible. As if we hadn't understood that we've entered a period where frugality must be a civic duty and that everyone must do their part to save the planet. Progress has its limits, they say!
And they gave us plenty of advice on how to cope with rising gas and electricity prices, to rethink our old consumption habits, to heat to 19 degrees Celsius, they even recommended lowering the temperature to 17 degrees Celsius in bedrooms, and if you're cold, just put on a sweater and add one or two blankets. As soon as night falls, close the shutters to ensure better insulation against the cold.
Taking a shower uses on average between 60 and 75 liters of water every three days, while a bath uses between 150 and 200 liters of water, so you get the idea...
Check the settings of refrigerators and freezers, and maintain them (defrost, clean). Turn off standby power on non-essential electrical appliances. Only use the washing machine or dishwasher when they are fully loaded. Use LED light bulbs; while more expensive to buy, they consume 6 to 10 times less electricity.
Clearly, the market economy tries to capture everything that is profitable, always with the aim of maximizing profits and paying dividends to shareholders. It's their moral compass to serve the interests of a minority at the expense of the majority.
Capitalism is not inevitable, so let's reason in the opposite direction: to hell with work and money!
Let us make our priority not exploitation, not consumption, not work, and let us manage our own social, economic and political life.
Let's organize happiness. Work isn't the most important thing in life, especially since it oppresses us and degrades our physical, moral, and health. Let's put an end to this society driven by "money." Nothing is free, yet we create wealth; it belongs to us. Let's end this organized theft. Let's break free from this increasingly deadly old capitalist system and establish a mutual aid, egalitarian, self-governing society based on cooperation-a society where everyone's freedom serves everyone.
Towards an egalitarian and self-governing society is possible
A society where free access is the guiding principle, whose functioning is based on local, municipal, departmental, regional, and national resources and exchanges, would eliminate the circulation of money, the medium of exchange, which corrupts human relationships because it is based on profit. Free access could be established in many areas of social and economic life and would be nothing less than justice, as with transportation (SNCF, RATP, air, departmental, regional, etc.), healthcare (hospitals, pharmacies, general practitioners, and all specialized medical services such as cancer or cardiology), education (from preschool to university), and food retail, from medium-sized to large supermarkets, where the workers of each company would decide how to share the profits according to everyone's needs.
Banks, which are the symbol of the triumph of capitalism, would no longer have a reason to exist.
Capitalism is not an end in itself. One simply needs to reason in the opposite direction to the dominant discourse.
It is possible to get rid of the old habits that the political system has helped to instill in our brains for thousands of years, habits that instill ignorance, stupidity, and literally suffocate us.
It is also possible to put an end to the reign of money, synonymous with power, injustice and exploitation.
It is possible to demystify the role of "work," which is neither a means of fulfillment nor essential to life, as politicians would have us believe. For those in power, it's about subjugating human beings to the status of slaves. As Grandpa Justhom used to say: " Have you ever seen a worker become a billionaire and make a fortune through their labor?! "
It's no picnic having to go out every day to sell that particular commodity, "labor power," which makes the exploiters rich. Moreover, there's no shortage of expressions rejecting work: it's not uncommon to hear, regarding work, "we have to go to the grind" or "I have to go to the sorrow."
The concept of work comes from the Latin word tripalium , which means instrument of torture. Historically, work has signified suffering and pain.
Possibilities exist and are emerging to build, to construct another society and to liberate people from their chains.
The beginnings exist within the capitalist consumer society. Workers have this capacity to adapt and create structures to circumvent capitalist rules such as: bartering, exchange, mutual aid, cooperatives, AMAPs, SCOPs, SCICs, mutuals, short supply chains in agriculture, market gardening, livestock farming... would already be favoured in terms of operation.
At the national level, this system would be federated into self-governing structures where representatives would be tasked with representing us (with one or two binding mandates). They would be mandated for one or two missions. They would be accountable and could be dismissed if they exceeded or deviated from their mission.
SOURCE: Justhom - anarchist expression blog
https://www.socialisme-libertaire.fr/2026/08/le-capitalisme-n-est-pas-ineluctable.html
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