Freedom of choice in a capitalist system: the freedom to be screwed by the financial system (banks, insurance companies and the like).

Free market: market regulated by a legal system written by law firms to ensure that profits are accrued by the parasitic rentier class (the FIRE sector).

Reading suggestion

The Capital Code: How Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178974/the-code-of-capital

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 Seeing through the bullshit without developing analytical skills of complex systems, class consciousness, and feeling the need to organize and fight for a social and ecological political economy that serves the collective good does not disturb the current path that opens towards a techno-fascist transhumanist dystopia.

Focusing on local and proximity issues to make communities more resilient (nothing against it) does not generate political agency and will not shake the power of the oligarchic State.

Complex societies require an organized state; visions of the State or its abolition that do not take into account that the accumulation of wealth and private property and/or the development of bureaucratic and technocratic hierarchies always lead to the seizure of power by psychopaths and sociopaths who feel entitled to control humanity.

“Power grants nothing without a demand. This has never happened and will never happen. Find out exactly what any person will silently submit to, and you will find out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be forced upon them, and these will continue until they are resisted with words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the resistance of those whom they oppress.”

-Frederick Douglass

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I never understood why Yanis (apart from virtue signaling) had to label Putin a monster every time he mentioned the name!

What should we call the real culprits of the invasion? 

Anyone who bothers to do the research easily comes to the conclusion that this war was not just provoked; the US/EU/UK/NATO wanted to make sure that it happened to weaken Russia and provoke a regime change at all costs. 

Apparently, it has been confirmed as a failed strategy that can escalate to nuclear annihilation.

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Many, if not most, liberals (including those who consider themselves progressive) advocate market fundamentalism (neoliberalism). 

“Democratic” socialists have long been colonized by neoliberals and put socialism in the garbage bin. 

Classical liberalism gave way to libfascism under the pretext of defending market freedom (financialization of the economy, rentier financial capitalism), the imperative of freeing the economy from the yoke of the State, imposing political austerity on ordinary citizens, and paving the way for fascism. 

The liberal bourgeois class is perfectly aware that its private interests and privileges are better protected under a fascist regime than under socialism or ecosocialism, which is what we need for a real and fair transition to a social and ecological political economy.

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This was the second time I posted the following comment, and it has already been deleted. 

It happens with some frequency.

We must be bold and call things by name: we live in the CAPITALOCENE ERA.

Carbon dioxide emissions from oil combustion worldwide from 1960 to 2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1198124/carbon-dioxy-emissions-from-oil-use-in-select-countries/

Crude oil consumption for each country from 1970 to 2006

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Crude-Oil-Consumption-for-each-Country-from-1970-to-2006_fig4_279484444

The USA (3% of the world's population), the epitome of capitalism, has produced more CO2 and consumed far more fossil fuels than any other country for decades.

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

Fossil fuel consumption

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

Why do we buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like? Is it due to the motivation of profit and capital accumulation or to some congenital defect of the human species?

Can these behaviors be related to a pathological system called capitalism that generates artificial dependencies and commodifies everything?

The concept of the Anthropocene is misleading because what makes humanity a geological force capable of literally moving mountains is the capitalist system (industrial, financial, rentier)

By the way, the word work derives from the word Tripalium or trepalium (instrument of torture).

Capitalism desensitizes human beings. To earn a living, we learn to fulfill duties, perform tasks, and play roles without feeling responsible for their consequences.

By refusing to label the current epoch Capitalocene, we are doing a favor to neo-Malthusian fanaticism that wants population reduction by any means. 

Furthermore, by avoiding confrontation with capitalism, the force behind the destruction caused to the planet will ultimately lead us to a transhumanist techno-fascist dystopia.

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We live in the Capitalocene Era, 500 years of capitalism in the web of life, creating artificial scarcity, enclosing the commons, and exploiting natural resources for profit and wealth accumulation. The development of industrial capitalism instigated the consumption of superfluous goods to continue generating profits.

Rentist financial capitalism (financialization of the economy) with the supremacy of the FIRE sector is yet another leap forward in the Capitalocene Era with the financialization of the ecosystem services. 

Finally, the commodification of literally everything, including life, the dependence on convenience, and technofixism demonstrates the power of capital in the web of life.

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From my perspective, it is intellectual dishonesty to talk about the Anthropocene without mentioning the role of the CAPITALOCENE in the entire process that is leading to the destruction of planet Earth.

Colonialist imperialism for profit and wealth accumulation began the process of commodification of literally everything.

The enclosure of the commons created artificial scarcity and coerced people into taking useless and destructive jobs to make ends meet.

We need a paradigm shift towards a social and ecological political economy (holistic civilization), not the reproduction of the capitalist system and the mindless consumer society.

Resorting to the financialization of ecosystem services to maintain the status quo of an anachronistic civilizational paradigm will not solve the problem, but it could pave the way for a techno-fascist transhumanist dystopia.

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