July 5, 2019
By: Rob Urie
The unifying factor behind environmental decline, an extractive health
care system, mind-numbing work for poverty wages, perpetual wars and
increasingly intrusive and assertive commercial relations, is capitalism. Of
course, the term is an abstraction, shorthand for a belief system used to
explain and organize social relations. Its history is of brutality, pillage and
genocide explained by its perpetrators as laying the ground for some imagined
future civility.