Capitalism

Welcome To The AI Ripoff Economy

October 11, 2026 Lindsay Owens, LA Progressive. Educate! Algorithmic Price Fixing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Capitalism, Price Gouging

Every day, companies find better, and sneakier, ways to reach deeper into our wallets. They trap us in subscriptions, bury fees until checkout, use algorithms to collude with competitors, and mine our personal data to charge us the most we’re willing to pay. With each trick and tactic, companies are reinventing the ripoff right under our noses. And, as families strain under the rising cost of living, these practices are coming for every line of the household budget. Algorithmic price fixing is one of the most powerful tools in that arsenal. Price-fixing no longer requires a smoky back room. Today, technology can do CEOs’ dirty work for them.

A Better Handmade Marketplace Launches: Beta Is Over!

October 11, 2026 Artisan's Cooperative. Create! artisans, Capitalism, Cooperative, Online Shopping

Our 2023 Marketplace Tech Plan utilized hosted e-commerce to get our marketplace launched in only seven months, using off-the-shelf technology to get us to revenue as fast as possible. Exactly three years later, today we launched A better handmade marketplace. Instead of renting our marketplace and functionality from corporations, we own it. We purchased a copy of the code, run it on a server hosted by a fellow cooperative (MayFirst), and can make feature improvements and bug fixes ourselves. Unlike other platforms, our sellers don’t compete with mass-produced drop shipped goods or the increasingly volatile rules and fees that have made it nearly impossible to survive in other marketplaces.

A Political-Economic Prequel Of Decolonial Ecological Accounting

September 30, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Substack. Educate! Alternative Economy, Capitalism, Decolonization, Ecology

Decolonial accounting systems could have been imagined twenty years ago, but they would have been much more difficult to implement. The problem was not a shortage of alternative indicators. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, accounting methodologies had become institutionalized through national statistical systems, international financial institutions, development agencies, auditing standards, environmental certification programs, and private financial infrastructure. These institutions had acquired considerable authority to determine what counted as productive, measurable, and valuable.

Amílcar Cabral And Revolutionary Education

September 27, 2026 Luca Oggionni, Portside. Strategize! Amilcar Cabral, Capitalism, Italy, Liberation

On July 1, 1970, Pope Paul VI received the leaders of the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies – Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde – in a private audience at the Vatican. The highest representative of the Catholic Church was meeting with (and backing) the people who were fighting the Catholic and fascist Estado Novo in Portugal. That day amounted to a great political victory and an important recognition for Africa’s anti-imperialist movements, at the cost of a diplomatic incident between the Vatican and the Portuguese government.

The Youth Want A Future

September 25, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, Employment, Global Economy, Youth

Over the past two years, young people around the world have taken to the streets. From Kenya to Nepal, Indonesia to the Philippines, from Madagascar to Morocco, and in Peru, they rise up and march. Journalists label these uprisings ‘Gen Z’, as if they were a market segment. The term describes the youthfulness of the protesters, their fluency with digital platforms, and their impatience with established political institutions. But it conceals more than it reveals about the politics of our times. A generation is not a class – young people do not share a common socioeconomic experience.

The Asylum And Its Keepers

September 25, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! Capitalism, health, Psychopath, Sanctions

A person who lives inside a delusion and feels nothing for the people they harm has lost contact with reality. We call them psychopaths. We have clinical language for this in individuals, but we lack it for institutions, and yet institutions repeatedly exhibit the same symptoms. States finance genocide and call it security. Corporations strip forests or degrade oceans and call it growth. Financial markets price fictions, and those fictions decide who eats. The notional value of outstanding derivatives exceeds world GDP several times over, and this paper wealth sets the terms of very real scarcity for billions of people.

Modernisation Does Not Mean Capitalism

September 18, 2026 Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Capitalism, Global South, Modernization, Self-Determination, Socialism

In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an ideological weapon for the Cold War. All societies, he argued, travelled along the same road, beginning in ‘traditional society’, passing through the ‘preconditions for take-off’, ‘take-off’, the ‘drive to maturity’, and eventually arriving at the ‘age of high mass consumption’. At the end of this road stood the United States itself: its social, cultural, and political institutions appeared as the model for the rest of the world.

We All Came Here From Somewhere

September 11, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, Immigration, Neoliberalism, Working Class

Everywhere we go in the world today, from the Global North to the Global South, we are inundated with rising anti-immigrant rhetoric. It seems to be an inescapable part of public discourse. This discourse is particularly toxic in the Global North, where it has become a central pillar of the Far Right of a Special Type. In December 2025, US President Donald Trump called Somali immigrants in the US ‘garbage’ and said they should be sent ‘back to where they came from’. Trump’s Vice President JD Vance has said that immigration is the ‘greatest threat’ to both the United States and Europe.

The Counter-Revolution Of Capital

September 9, 2026 Nick Estes, Counter Punch. Educate! American genocide, Capitalism, Counter-revolution, Indigenous Peoples, Slavery

This past July, the United States celebrated the 250th anniversary since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This issue of The Pen is My Machete brings together anti-imperialist perspectives on the meaning of that founding for the rest of the world and the world’s first nation born entirely as a capitalist state. Historian Gerald Horne has convincingly argued that the 1776 American Revolution was, in fact, a counter-revolution—one that locked down and expanded the plantation economy and delayed the abolition of African slavery in North America (and perhaps the emancipation of the earth from capital) for nearly a century.

Rebuilding Trade Union Movement: ‘Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win’

September 7, 2026 Paul O’Connell, Resilience. Strategize! Capitalism, Legislature, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The government’s proposals to compel workers in designated sectors to provide so called ‘minimum service levels’ on strike days is an attempt to make strikes ineffectual. The British Medical Association has stated that from a government which has gutted the National Health Service (NHS), introducing anti-worker legislation in the name of protecting patient safety is both laughable and dangerous. The head of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Paul Nowak, has said that trade unions will oppose the proposed laws ‘in both parliament and the courts’.

How We Get To Medicare For All

September 5, 2026 Nancy J. Altman, Portside. Strategize! Capitalism, Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, Worker Rights and Jobs

In the early morning hours of December 4, 2024, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was gunned down outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan in New York City. The CEO was on his way to the health insurance company’s annual investor conference. The police found the words “Delay,” “Deny,” and “Depose” carved into bullet casings at the scene. The public reaction was swift and overwhelming. People took to social media to describe stories of mothers, fathers, spouses, children, and friends who had died from treatable illnesses, dead because UnitedHealthcare or other health insurance companies had either denied the life-saving care doctors had prescribed to their loved ones or had endlessly delayed approval of the lifesaving treatment.

Why The Global South Needs An Industrial Policy

September 4, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Capitalism, Development, Global South, industrial policy, Resources

For forty years, the countries of the Global South were told that economic planning was an error. The state was to retreat, tariffs were to fall, public firms were to be privatised, and investment was to be entrusted to those who move money across borders at the speed of a keystroke. Development would arrive through comparative advantage: each country should sell what it already had and buy what others had learned to make. The result is visible from Harare to Jakarta. Countries rich in minerals, fertile land, and young workers remain trapped at the least rewarding end of global value chains, exporting raw materials while importing the higher-value goods made from them.

As US Empire Collapses And Interest In Socialism Surges, What Next?

August 31, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Capitalism, Debt, Democrats, Elections, Socialism, US Empire

The US Federal debt recently climbed to $40 trillion, double what it was just ten years ago. The United States is borrowing at an unprecedented rate, putting itself and the whole world at risk of financial collapse. Professor Richard Wolff joins Clearing the FOG to discuss why the debt is rising so quickly, how it impacts our daily lives and more signs of a US empire in decline. Wolff explains that the election of Donald Trump and progressive Democrats are "votes of alienation" rather than being based on a political ideology. Wolff expresses optimism in the face of a rising interest in socialism and whether the US can transform away from capitalism or rescue it, as was done under FDR.

Attacks On Communist Ideology Using Marxist Terminology

August 31, 2026 Leo Schwarz, The Left Chapter. Educate! Book Review, Capitalism, CIA, Marxism

Shortly before his death, Herbert Marcuse wrote an essay on Rudolf Bahro’s book The Alternative in Eastern Europe. In the essay, Marcuse hailed Bahro’s “critique of actually existing socialism” as “the most important contribution to Marxist theory and practice in decades.” This statement was part of a coordinated campaign for the book and for Bahro that swept through the major media outlets of the Western world between 1977 and 1979–80. As we now know (or can know), a striking number of the key figures in this campaign maintained connections in the postwar decades to the Central Intelligence Agency or to various institutions and organizations that were either controlled, funded, or considered “friendly” by the CIA or the U.S. State Department.

The Fight To Keep Public Libraries Public Continues

August 30, 2026 Jeff Hagan, In The Public Interest. Strategize! Capitalism, Libraries, Privatization, Public Goods

When I tell people what I do, and where I work, and say that one of the public things that is sometimes under threat of privatization is the public library, that inclusion is usually met with shock. How and why would a community privatize its library? Surely the library is one of the very few places that would never see privatization, right? The privatization of libraries follows a similar pattern as a lot of privatization schemes–a financial shortfall creates a crisis (or the appearance of a crisis) and a magic solution appears: turn the public good over to a private company who will “run it like a business” and make it more efficient.

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