A storm in the West: The liberal intellectual paradigm is broken
04.06.2025
Hector is tricked into combat and killed beneath Troy’s city walls. Trump might well heed the moral to The Iliad story.
Capitalism
Financial Turbo-Capitalism: How They are Taking Everything Away from Us
12.05.2025
Financial turbo-capitalism could be described as an extractive industry, albeit sui generis. It is, in fact, a powerful apparatus for abstraction, centralization, and capture of common goods and social value, in accordance with the concept of “accumulation by dispossession” evoked by David Harvey in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, in reference to the neoliberal paradigm and the transition from bourgeois-manufacturing capitalism to post-bourgeois-financial predatory capitalism.
Much more than a trade war… and it’s just getting started.
18.04.2025
We don’t know the impact the Trump administration’s imposition of 10% tariffs on their exports will have on the inhabitants of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. We’ll likely never know, because the population of those territories consists solely of penguins, seals, turtles, and seabirds. It’s been more than ten years since a human last set foot on these 412-square-kilometer rocky islets located halfway between Australia and Africa, whose economic activity, sustained by the production of elephant seal oil and seal hunts, ended in 1877.
The Pentagon’s Marriage To Venture Capital
11.04.2024
At the end of 2022, the US Department of Defense decided to create a new division — the Office of Strategic Capital.
Why Does Capitalism Now Prefer the Left?
22.01.2024
The old bourgeois capitalism, in the dialectical phase, preferred the culture of the Right, with its nationalism, its disciplinary authoritarianism, its patriarchy, its alliance with the altar and its values, at that time functional to the reprodu
Wall Street eyes big profits from Israel-Hamas war
31.10.2023
The United Nations warned that there was “clear evidence” that war crimes may have been committed in “the explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza.” Meanwhile, Wall Street is hoping for an explosion in profits.
Lifestyle-Linke : The Left of Marketed Lifestyles
14.08.2023
Phenomena such as gay pride are presented by the order of discourse as essential moments of emancipation from a residual and homophobic patriarchy.
Why global value chains should be called global poverty chains
30.01.2023
Global value chains (GVCs) “boost incomes, create better jobs and reduce poverty,” according to the World Bank.
Why Turbo-Capitalism wants to de-Christianize the West
Beating around the Bush: Polycrisis, Overlapping Emergencies, and Capitalism
02.12.2022
It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself.
