Capitalism never gets to pay its bills.
The various strategies that capitalism
has in order to
generate profit involve things like exploiting nature,
then exploiting workers,
then exploiting reproductive labour,
subsidising and supporting that through
the availability of cheap food and cheap energy
and making that possible with the
availability of cheap money
and policing that so that certain
lives become cheap.
In every domain the bills are coming due,
whether it’s around the state shift
that we’re living through at the moment
around atmospheric climate change
or whether it’s the resurgence of global
workers strikes,
or whether it’s about the intersectional work
that groups like Black Lives Matter or the international
peasants’ movement La Via Campesina are doing,
when you look at some of the crises in capitalism
and then look at some of the
social movement responses,
it makes sense to see these
both as multi-dimensional
but also as always tied to capitalism’s
originary seven cheap things.
