Benn calls it “leveragism” but basically it’s about control. Rather than making more money, it’s more valuable to devalue/strip the power of communities to fight against you so that you can more easily institute your policies. When you think of it like that, stuff that just seems wildly cruel starts to make sense.
But really, Benn is just analyzing material conditions and coming to a logical conclusion. I don’t think he’s read Marx, but it’s basically Marx lol.
I mean … it is wildly cruel it doesn’t just seem that way. I suppose yeah if you view it through some sociopathic cretin billionaires perspective it makes “sense” but it’s still super fucked.
Honestly anyone that is cool with that shit needs a swift visit to the guillotine.
Oh yeah, for sure, just for clarification when I say seems to just be cruel, I mean only cruel. There’s motive behind it. But it’s unequivocally cruel and only performed by those who capitalism rewards the most: the unempathetic, the narcissistic, those who are willing to exploit others and the planet the most. They care only about power and nothing about the people or the environment they destroy. Those are just numbers to them.
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Benn calls it “leveragism” but basically it’s about control. Rather than making more money, it’s more valuable to devalue/strip the power of communities to fight against you so that you can more easily institute your policies. When you think of it like that, stuff that just seems wildly cruel starts to make sense.
But really, Benn is just analyzing material conditions and coming to a logical conclusion. I don’t think he’s read Marx, but it’s basically Marx lol.
I mean … it is wildly cruel it doesn’t just seem that way. I suppose yeah if you view it through some sociopathic cretin billionaires perspective it makes “sense” but it’s still super fucked.
Honestly anyone that is cool with that shit needs a swift visit to the guillotine.
Oh yeah, for sure, just for clarification when I say seems to just be cruel, I mean only cruel. There’s motive behind it. But it’s unequivocally cruel and only performed by those who capitalism rewards the most: the unempathetic, the narcissistic, those who are willing to exploit others and the planet the most. They care only about power and nothing about the people or the environment they destroy. Those are just numbers to them.