capitalism
Capitalism is the system based on exchange of commodities, private ownership by a few of the means of production and the exploitation of wage workers. Wage workers are paid less than the value of our labour; our "surplus value" is expropriated from us and turned into profit and expanded capital.
Libertarian communism, capitalism and direct action - an introduction
libcom.org's basic introduction to our understanding of the world as it is, what we think can be done to make it better, and how a libertarian communist society could function.
What is capitalism?
Chapter 1 of Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR - (Neil Fernandez)
Chapter 1 of Neil Fernandez's Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR - A Marxist Theory, Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 1997, which also serves as a useful historical overview of modern radical theory. From the book's introduction:
Capitalism under fire - International Herald Tribune
In this age of "La Pensée Unique" and corporate control of the mass media it's rare to find articles that get through the editing control net. But this from the International Herald Tribune no less, is one of those rare ones.
Capitalism Under Fire
"The protests' ostensible purpose is to force withdrawal of a minor change in this French government's employment policy, but they have taken on a radically different significance."
Grey September - Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic and J-P Carasso
The underpaid washer-up and the overpaid white collar who both died in the World Trade Center died as footsoldiers of a system that exploited their death (treating them as heroes of free trade and the free world) as it had exploited their life. They had little time to appreciate the much vaunted security they'd bought in exchange for their submission.
