Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?
Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.
Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.
#Research #PrivateProperty #Tupperware #UsbCables
Early research from the J. Locke lab in the 17th century established that things that are a certain person's property stay that way until bought, thrown away, given away, or sold.
In the 1990s scientists discovered that Tupperware shows a surprising behaviour: When your friend leaves it at your place, it becomes your property.
Recently, several groundbreaking experiments conducted by European researchers showed that USB cables exhibit the same bewildering behaviour.
Even more astonishingly, researchers found it suffices that you inadvertently place a cable into your bag or pocket for that cable to turn into your property.
Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #utopia #edwardbellamy #poverty #prostitution #PrivateProperty #socialism #tuberculosis #war #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
Privatization is a stupid idea (and destroys economies)
Restricting individual wealth: https://www.aurianneor.org/restricting-individual-wealth/
#aurianneor, #Blum, #cac40 , #democracy, #foreigners, #Gracchi, #individualism, #labour, #money, #Musk, #nationalisations, #Newdeal, #oligarchs, #peace, #plutocracy, #poverty, #privateproperty, #property, #prosperity, #roosevelt, #salary, #switzerland, #tax, #UK, #wealth, #Zelensky, #Zuckerberg
I used to have a sign that read, "Is there life after death? Trespass here and find out"
I do like this one too. #PrivateProperty #NoTrespassing
For most people in the US, housing costs—mortgage or rent—represent about a third of their income.
Which means most people in the US who work and pay for housing spend January through April each year laboring on behalf of their landlord or mortgage lender.
Marshall takes his job as a security guard very seriously.
#photography #fotografía #fotografie #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #iguana #reptiles #Nature #naturephotography
#youshallnotpass #PrivateProperty #LookClosely #monochrome #monochromephotography #bnw
#LauraCochranPhotography
Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #utopia #edwardbellamy #poverty #prostitution #PrivateProperty #socialism #tuberculosis #war #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
#Kentucky Is About to Pass the #Cruelest #CriminalJustice #Bill in #America
The #state is making it easier to #kill #homeless #people on #privateproperty—and that’s just one part of one of the most #draconian #crimebills in recent #history.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HousingInsecurity #Homelessness #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kentucky-crime-bill/
This is a publicly-funded #security service not to protect the propertied classes in general, not even the ultra-rich in general, but specifically the right of the ultra-rich to flaunt obscene wealth in a city with skyrocketing inequality.
The #police don't serve us, but that's our money they're using (and frankly, it's our money on those wrists)
Been reading up a lot about neoliberals lately.
Turns out that the people who love capitalism the most and want to protect it at all costs don't think that it inevitably leads to democracy. In fact they think too much democracy leads inevitably to socialism, and sought (often successfully) to encase capitalism within the protection of national and international law in order to fend off democratic attacks on "economic freedom," aka, the right of a small slice of humanity to take their piles of money wherever they want and be assured of finding desperate low-wage workers wherever they go.
@dangoodin Private ownership enables the #fediverse as well. It is not a “public resource.”
You’re using @jerry's #Mastodon server, and although he graciously accepts (your?) donations, it’s his property.
Arrangements may vary across the rest of the fediverse but they still rest on property rights, as does the hosting and network infrastructure.
The issue is choice, which requires #PrivateProperty and vice versa.
I came across a first-hand account of somehow who escaped the fire in #Lahaina and she noted that many roads out of town were privately owned by sugar plantations and were chained shut.
She says people died in their cars trying to escape.
These people were murdered by #PrivateProperty.
All of those sugar plantations were enclosed by the Hawaiian monarchy and sold off to American colonists, who in turn overthrew the monarchy and cemented their control of the islands and their lands.
Dying because of a chained gate on land that was stolen from the Hawaiian people is as surely murder as if they’d been pushed into the flames.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
(a thread of threads, quotes, and links)
This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done *to* us, and what has been *taken from us*.
By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even plenty of people who swear by capitalism and identify as "capitalist" yet have no capital of their own and no serious hope of ever having any worth speaking of. In other words almost everyone except for the very few who have had the power to exploit us and shape our lives to serve their agenda. We're going to examine institutions and concepts that have deeply altered our world at all levels, both our external and internal realities.
By "here" we are talking about climate crisis and myriad other environmental catastrophes resulting from hyper-excessive extraction, consumption and waste; a world of rampant inequality, exploitation and oppression, hunger and starvation, genocide and war; a world of fences, walls, gatekeepers, prisons, police, bullshit jobs and criminalized poverty; a world overrun with cars and preventable disease; a world of vanishing biodiversity and blooming fascism; a world where "democracy" results in being led by some of the worst of humanity; a world ruled by an imaginary but all-powerful and single-minded god: Capital.
Our inspiration and structural framework for this survey is this quote from "The Prehistory of Private Property", an important work from political philosopher Karl Widerquist and anthropologist Grant S. McCall:
"After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned."
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#2b
Also recommended: "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy"
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#4b
#capitalism #colonialism #enclosure #PrivateProperty #state #police #inequality #anthropology #environment #ClimateCrisis #economics
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