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Text 24 Apr 18,744 notes

People starving when tons of unsold food is thrown away globally because people couldn’t afford to purchase the food, that’s violence.

People dying and going bankrupt to pay for their healthcare, that’s violence.

People being evicted from their homes when there are more houses than there are houseless people, that’s violence.

via So let go all of these mixed emotions.

Quote 17 Apr 6,581 notes

The board game “Monopoly” was originally invented in the early 20th century to warn players of the dangers of free market capitalism. The original title was “The Landlord Game,” made to show how property owners exploit their tenants with exorbitant rent. The game eventually evolved to include rules that let players charge higher rent if they owned all the railroads or the utility companies. But the endgame scenario of Monopoly is a lot like the endgame of capitalism that we’re witnessing today - no matter how the game starts, the wealth will eventually accumulate in the hands of one player, while the other players have to sell off their property to pay their debt to the owner and, eventually, lose everything they have.

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The Endgame of Capitalism (via thurmansnotebook)

I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! But NOOOOOOOOOO the fam told me that it was a GOOD thing, winning the game….

(via jhameia)

Text 10 Apr 4,397 notes

amodernmanifesto:

Always remember.

Under capitalism, it is perfectly possible to have starving people and unsold food in the same region.

Perfectly possible to have empty factories, decaying infrastructure and millions out of work.

To have too many houses and homeless people in the same street.

That is fucked.

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Text 31 Mar 925 notes

rightlibertarian:

people died in socialist countries therefore socialism doesn’t work

come back to capitalism where you can be immortal

(Source: powerdadgendoikari)

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Text 12 Mar 95 notes

sinidentidades:

Please continue deforesting and destroying like all natural habitats, so you can build another neighborhood right next to the one that’s been empty for almost a year because no one can afford this shit, yet there are enough houses for everyone in the U.S. right now while people are living on the streets. Isn’t that cute as fuck?

via I'm a dork.

Quote 14 Feb 15,287 notes

Everything we feared about communism - that we would lose our houses and savings and be forced to labor eternally for meager wages with no voice in the system - has come true under capitalism.

— Jeff Sparrow (via lavenderlabia)

(Source: anticapitalist)

Quote 10 Sep 245 notes

[Who] does gain from the drugs trade? One unambiguous winner is the Western banking sector. In recent years a series of American and British banks, including Wachovia and HSBC, have been caught providing banking services to drug dealers. Bankers don’t move money around for nothing. They receive commissions for the service. And they are only part of a much larger infrastructure of lawyers, company formation agents, accountants and tax advisers who help turn the proceeds of crime into untraceable capital. The benefits for banks don’t stop there. Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, told the Observer newspaper that ‘in many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital’ that the banks could access during the credit squeeze of 2008. ‘There were signs,’ he said, ‘that some banks were rescued that way.’

— So who’s winning the war on drugs? (via theamericanbear)

Link 6 Aug 814 notes Coca-Cola to be booted out of Bolivia»

socialuprooting:

Coca-Cola, one of the planet’s giant corporations, is to be unceremoniously booted out of Bolivia. The announcement was made by Bolivian Minister of External Affairs, David Choquehuanca, who stated that the date chosen, December 21, coincides with the end of the cycle in the Mayan Calendar, the end of capitalism and the start of a culture of life.

Coca Cola will be expelled from Bolivia on the date that the Mayan calendar enters a new cycle - December 21. According to the Bolivian Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Choquehuanca, the decision was taken to expel Coca Cola on the date of the end of the Mayan calendar so as to create a pretext for celebrating the end of capitalism and the beginning of “the culture of life” in community-based societies. The celebration will take place at the Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on La Isla del Sol (Sun Isle) in Lake Titicaca.

“The twenty-first of December 2012 is the end of selfishness, of division. The twenty-first of December has to be the end of Coca Cola and the beginning of mocochinche (a local refreshing drink),” said the Foreign Minister at a political rally for Evo Morales. “The planets will line up after 26,000 years…it is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism,” he added.

via Fancy When I Fight.

Quote 26 May 1,644 notes

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

— Eugene Debs (via lucifelle)

(Source: thoughtfulchild)

Quote 25 May 3,428 notes

Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be doing something brilliant, but instead are putting stickers on packets of biscuits they can barely afford for 12 hours a day so some lazy prick can play golf every Sunday with all the other impotent do nothing pricks.

— Ourben: (via theorthodoxheretic)