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"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all." ~ W.E.B. Du Bois, 1961 Self Destruction, Bring It On, Sayings, Movie Posters, Lyrics, Film Poster, Billboard

Self Destruction

"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all." ~ W.E.B. Du Bois, 1961

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The Sociological Cinema

Capitalism began in England around the 16th century. They immediately went on to colonize half the planet in search of new markets, committed multiple genocides, traded slaves, and engaged in constant war. In school we learn about how communism is evil because of a famine. ~ @existentialcoms Communism, New Market, 16th Century, Politics, Learning, Equality, England

Capitalism began in England around the 16th century. They immediately went on to colonize half the planet in search of new markets, committed multiple genocides, traded slaves, and engaged in constant war. In school we learn about how communism is evil because of a famine. ~ @existentialcoms

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The Sociological Cinema

Marx always made the point that work--labour--is good, it's fulfilling, it has been a natural drive of humanity forever. What's degrading about work today is the social relations that sustain it (wage labour and the extraction of surplus value). Labour itself is not degrading. ~ @JoshuaYJackson Josh Jackson, Work Today, Good Things, Writing, December

Marx always made the point that work--labour--is good, it's fulfilling, it has been a natural drive of humanity forever. What's degrading about work today is the social relations that sustain it (wage labour and the extraction of surplus value). Labour itself is not degrading. ~ @JoshuaYJackson

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The Sociological Cinema

What's weird is you get called radical just for pointing out reality. People are homeless while millions of homes are empty. People are hungry while tons of food is thrown out People can't pay for healthcare while trillions of dollars sit offshore. These are simply facts. ~ @JoshuaPotash Health Care, Canning, Reading, Empty, Quotes, Weird

What's weird is you get called radical just for pointing out reality. People are homeless while millions of homes are empty. People are hungry while tons of food is thrown out People can't pay for healthcare while trillions of dollars sit offshore. These are simply facts. ~ @JoshuaPotash

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The Sociological Cinema

Aliens: "Explain to us: How do you decide how to allocate resources and who does what work on Earth?" Capitalist: [showing charts] "So you see, on Earth we have a free market, so resources are efficiently allocated to meet the needs of the people based on market principles like supply and demand. Entrepreneurs own the factories and workers sell their labor to them." Aliens: "How can you 'own' a factory?"... Encouraging Thoughts, I Dont Understand, Lost Money, Jokes, Comics, Aliens, Charts

Encouraging Thoughts

I Dont Understand

Aliens: "Explain to us: How do you decide how to allocate resources and who does what work on Earth?" Capitalist: [showing charts] "So you see, on Earth we have a free market, so resources are efficiently allocated to meet the needs of the people based on market principles like supply and demand. Entrepreneurs own the factories and workers sell their labor to them." Aliens: "How can you 'own' a factory?"...

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The Sociological Cinema

This month's gas shortage should be a wake up call to the Left woke mob: the Green New Deal would be disastrous for our country. ~ @mikepompeo The gas shortage was a result of predatory capitalism. It has nothing whatsoever to do with green policies bc none have been enacted. Are Americans really this easily duped? I mean, this is some pretty low-quality propagandistic nonsense. ~ @drprops Mike Pompeo, Wake Up Call, Our Country, Dupes, Pretty, Green

This month's gas shortage should be a wake up call to the Left woke mob: the Green New Deal would be disastrous for our country. ~ @mikepompeo The gas shortage was a result of predatory capitalism. It has nothing whatsoever to do with green policies bc none have been enacted. Are Americans really this easily duped? I mean, this is some pretty low-quality propagandistic nonsense. ~ @drprops

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The Sociological Cinema

Artificial scarcity is a feature of capitalism. Empty houses surround homeless people, tones of food waste encircle hungry people & unused medical resources sit idle near dying people. A commodified world that "takes necessities from the masses to giver luxuries to the classes" ~ MLK In Distress, Corporate America, Mental Breakdown, Homeless People, Medical, Food Waste

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Homeless People

Artificial scarcity is a feature of capitalism. Empty houses surround homeless people, tones of food waste encircle hungry people & unused medical resources sit idle near dying people. A commodified world that "takes necessities from the masses to giver luxuries to the classes" ~ MLK

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The Sociological Cinema

"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Pan Africanism, Propaganda Art, Red Fish, Black Power, Martin Luther King, Rage, Favorite Quotes

Martin Luther King

Favorite Quotes

"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Sociological Cinema

People once thought slavery was "part of human nature" and would last forever. They once thought the same about feudalism and monarchy. Imagine: some people today think that about capitalism. ~ @profwolff Free Thinker, Human Condition, Human Nature

Human Condition

People once thought slavery was "part of human nature" and would last forever. They once thought the same about feudalism and monarchy. Imagine: some people today think that about capitalism. ~ @profwolff

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The Sociological Cinema

60 mil claimed unemployment, used up savings, & asked for help. 10 mil face eviction; 8 mil fell into poverty. But 600+ US billionaires got richer by $1 trillion. Capitalists buy governments to keep this system, pandemic or not. ~ @profwolff Equality Now, Something To Remember, Ask For Help, Socialism, Shut Up

Something To Remember

60 mil claimed unemployment, used up savings, & asked for help. 10 mil face eviction; 8 mil fell into poverty. But 600+ US billionaires got richer by $1 trillion. Capitalists buy governments to keep this system, pandemic or not. ~ @profwolff

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The Sociological Cinema

Capitalism produces ecological crisis for the same reason it produces inequality: because the fundamental mechanism of capitalist growth is that capital must extract (from nature and labour) more than it gives in return. ~ @jasonhickel Ecology, Prompts

Capitalism produces ecological crisis for the same reason it produces inequality: because the fundamental mechanism of capitalist growth is that capital must extract (from nature and labour) more than it gives in return. ~ @jasonhickel

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The Sociological Cinema

Always amazed at how many people on this site have capitalism Stockholm's syndrome. Imagine being furious at the suggestion that people could be paid more for work. ~ @deadeyebrakeman Capitalism stockholm's syndrome is so accurate omg. This is how I feel when people get made about their coworkers taking time off. "They're making me have to do more work." Nope, that's actually the corporation exploiting your ass 🙂. People deserve money and breaks, I promose. ~ @missplace_d Stockholm Syndrome, Social Issues, How I Feel, I Promise

Stockholm Syndrome

Always amazed at how many people on this site have capitalism Stockholm's syndrome. Imagine being furious at the suggestion that people could be paid more for work. ~ @deadeyebrakeman Capitalism stockholm's syndrome is so accurate omg. This is how I feel when people get made about their coworkers taking time off. "They're making me have to do more work." Nope, that's actually the corporation exploiting your ass 🙂. People deserve money and breaks, I promose. ~ @missplace_d

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The Sociological Cinema

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television and armed force. ~ Michael Parenti, Against Empire Global Awareness, Green Earth, Word Of Advice, More Words, Political News

Global Awareness

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television and armed force. ~ Michael Parenti, Against Empire

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The Sociological Cinema

Let me be clear: No one should have to pay for coronavirus testing or treatment. ~ @JoeBiden Let me be clearer: Under capitalism, your wealth and income are the best predictors of your life expectancy. If you aren't comfortable with that during a pandemic, you might ask yourself why you are ever comfortable with that. ~ @tanyaboza Wealth, Let It Be, Life, Health

Let me be clear: No one should have to pay for coronavirus testing or treatment. ~ @JoeBiden Let me be clearer: Under capitalism, your wealth and income are the best predictors of your life expectancy. If you aren't comfortable with that during a pandemic, you might ask yourself why you are ever comfortable with that. ~ @tanyaboza

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The Sociological Cinema

Know that there are a handful of billionaires that could make sure people don't need to go to work. The government could put a moratorium on rent, mortgages, student loans. We could nationalize utilities. Capitalism prevents all of this. ~ @SultanReina Marilynne Robinson, Democratic Socialist, Here's The Thing, Reproductive Rights, Political Views, Student Loans

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Know that there are a handful of billionaires that could make sure people don't need to go to work. The government could put a moratorium on rent, mortgages, student loans. We could nationalize utilities. Capitalism prevents all of this. ~ @SultanReina

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The Sociological Cinema

Mutating viruses have always been with us. A rational economic system would have learned to plan and manage them. Capitalism failed to learn because profit was/is its #1 priority. Capitalism caused today's disaster, not the latest virus. ~ @profwolff Corona California, Anarcho Capitalism, May We All, Economic Systems, Corona Beer

Corona California

Anarcho Capitalism

Economic Systems

Mutating viruses have always been with us. A rational economic system would have learned to plan and manage them. Capitalism failed to learn because profit was/is its #1 priority. Capitalism caused today's disaster, not the latest virus. ~ @profwolff

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The Sociological Cinema

"This is where we keep capitalism's solutions to global warming." Lost Decade, Medusa Art, Pagan Decor, Elder Futhark Runes, Flavio, Christian Memes, Punk Goth

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Christian Memes

"This is where we keep capitalism's solutions to global warming."

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The Sociological Cinema

Reduce - Studies show that the top 1% of the population controls 34% of the wealth in the U.S. Experts agree that this amount can be reduced dramatically. The Dept. of Social Ecology has set a target of 80% wealth reduction for this group by the year 2000. Source: Fifth Estate, 1980s Don't Let, Post Contemporary, Workers Rights, Image Macro

Post Contemporary

Reduce - Studies show that the top 1% of the population controls 34% of the wealth in the U.S. Experts agree that this amount can be reduced dramatically. The Dept. of Social Ecology has set a target of 80% wealth reduction for this group by the year 2000. Source: Fifth Estate, 1980s

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The Sociological Cinema

Neoliberalism 101: "Neoliberalism is a form of capitalism in which the state deregulates the economy, destroys unions, decreases taxes on the rich and corporations, and defunds public goods, while repressing and policing the poor, particularly people of color." ~ Joseph M. Schwartz Social Policy, Social Services, Labor Law, Keep Fighting, Cause And Effect

Social Services

Cause And Effect

Neoliberalism 101: "Neoliberalism is a form of capitalism in which the state deregulates the economy, destroys unions, decreases taxes on the rich and corporations, and defunds public goods, while repressing and policing the poor, particularly people of color." ~ Joseph M. Schwartz

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The Sociological Cinema

1. Deregulates the economy, opening up industries to privatization. 2. Destroys unions, and the ability to build collective power 3. Decreases taxes on the rich 4. Defunds public goods, while investing heavily in police/military/prisons/surveillance ~ @jtbrg Open Up, Prison, Investing, Public, Military, Change

1. Deregulates the economy, opening up industries to privatization. 2. Destroys unions, and the ability to build collective power 3. Decreases taxes on the rich 4. Defunds public goods, while investing heavily in police/military/prisons/surveillance ~ @jtbrg

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The Sociological Cinema

Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor--both black and white, both here and abroad. ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Slavery Today, Middle School Classroom, Work Hard, Things To Think About, Believe, Positivity

Middle School Classroom

Things To Think About

Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor--both black and white, both here and abroad. ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Sociological Cinema

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." ~ Ursula K Leguin Artist: Dylan Meconis and Sarah Mirk, "Nothing Is Inescapable" Aquarius Quotes, Mutual Respect, Tough Love, Social Activities, Quote Board, Fun Comics

Aquarius Quotes

Social Activities

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." ~ Ursula K Leguin Artist: Dylan Meconis and Sarah Mirk, "Nothing Is Inescapable"

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The Sociological Cinema