The communist sends the soldiers to your house, kicks in the door, lines you up against a wall and tells you its 'for the people's good'
The capitalist just sort of looks at you while you starve - he's watching you the whole fucking time and at any moment can do the simplest thing to stop it - but instead assures you it's your own fault, and it'll be for your own good in the end.
I'm not sure which I prefer anymore. Either way you're still fucked.
Neoliberalism needs the risk of poverty to keep working - otherwise it just sort of falls apart. You see those people over there - you loose your job, your livelyhood, your home, your gonna end up like them so just keep going untill you kill yourself with misery. It needs the inherent threat of insecurity to make people accept things they just wouldn't otherwise accept - like being abused to fuck in a workplace environment, run ragged into the ground and spending all the light hours of the day working three fucking jobs.
An ultimately, it thrives on the idea that someone will come to take what little you've been allowed to eke out away. Be it the government, the bank, or them immigrants - the threat is the same.
In practice it doesn't really need to be that way though - does it?
The capitalist just sort of looks at you while you starve - he's watching you the whole fucking time and at any moment can do the simplest thing to stop it - but instead assures you it's your own fault, and it'll be for your own good in the end.
I'm not sure which I prefer anymore. Either way you're still fucked.
Neoliberalism needs the risk of poverty to keep working - otherwise it just sort of falls apart. You see those people over there - you loose your job, your livelyhood, your home, your gonna end up like them so just keep going untill you kill yourself with misery. It needs the inherent threat of insecurity to make people accept things they just wouldn't otherwise accept - like being abused to fuck in a workplace environment, run ragged into the ground and spending all the light hours of the day working three fucking jobs.
An ultimately, it thrives on the idea that someone will come to take what little you've been allowed to eke out away. Be it the government, the bank, or them immigrants - the threat is the same.
In practice it doesn't really need to be that way though - does it?
Oh sweet meteor of death
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.