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If capitalism is a system which requires a ready supply of people to be dehumanized and exploited, then colonialism is the other side of this coin: that socially organized labor and force which dehumanizes and kills people for material benefit and control. And it is important to understand: colonialism is primary to capitalism - capitalism would never have been possible if not for the (continuous) primitive accumulation of colonial violence.
The Joy of Putting the Gun Down
keweenawspear.com
They have no choice but to join this hustle—but they also have concerns: in a sales relationship, the customer is always right, and the customer, as a rule, wants more of what they just received. You can tweak a brand, spin it off, and refresh it—but change its fundamentals and you have yourself a dilution crisis and many indignant customers.
Capitalisation is the extraction of value without direct involvement in its production, but instead by making a claim on its future benefits. The production of fictitious capital is a ghostly process of accumulation that, as Marx put it, transforms value into a “mere phantom of the mind”.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
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