Mini-Theory Blog: First Order Consideration

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On the question of “why must we be anticapitalist” in modern Pig Empire society, I feel the answers are increasingly self evident. Built on short term thinking, extractivism, and exploitation, capitalism cannot help but be the driver of not only economic, but social inequality in our communities. Rather than fostering justice, freedom, and political empowerment, capitalism exists in direct opposition to these principles; seeking to shackle and exploit labor, to enrich and empower a tiny fraction of the richest people in our society. Justifying why some deserve to live in opulence, and some deserve to die in various forms of bondage, is the primary purpose of racism, discrimination, and enforced hierarchal orders in our society. Far greater scholars than I have noted that the key to ending white supremacy, the patriarchy, and neofuedalist power relationships, lies in ending the capitalism all of these social forces are employed to maintain.

Naturally, the case for anticapitalism becomes even stronger when you examine the two great existential threats empowered capital has unleashed on both the Pig Empire, and the human species as a whole. The origins of both impending climate catastrophe, and the fascist creep, lie firmly in the bosom of ruling class capital and a society increasingly rigged from the top down to cater to their every whim. Rich capitalists themselves boil the oceans for profit, while funding fascist politicians to subjugate those who would oppose wiping out the species; simultaneously, the dominant ideology of capitalist realism tells us all that nothing can be done to stop this without the permission and enrichment of these very same capitalists.

It is then fair to say that the reason why we in the labor class must be anticapitalist, is because the alternative is a form of collective mass suicide. There is no justice, no equality, and indeed no life, under capitalism going forward. Which naturally brings up the obvious follow up question of why you, I, or anyone who doesn’t want to die under the fascist boot on a boiling planet, would trust any movement, revolution, or leader “on the left” who isn’t explicitly anticapitalist? The answer of course, is that we wouldn’t; or at least we certainly shouldn’t.