Capitalism has our consent through two different channels, one through the consumer choices that we make when buy things, the other is through our stratified and locked in Labour that is enforced by social division and status, where most people earn just enough money to cover their weekly outgoings before returning to work on Monday morning after having only a weekend for own time and time to rest.

It is a divisive and fraudulent setup that passes on a slavery virus with everyone it interacts with on the way, from the producer to the consumer; it has no ethical foundation or guidelines other than to make profit, and to make more profit through expansion and growth with no regard for any other living organism in its path.

The virus spreads: an orgy of legalized theft and acquisition

Capitalism in our times is moving towards an advanced stage in its viral proliferation, it has spread to every corner of the globe. The Politics of capitalism, Neoliberalism and its technocratic had picked Politian’s are once again in predatory mode as they asset strip our social support structures and make them their own through acquisition. Yes, you heard right, Neoliberal Politicians are selling off of our social support structures that we have already paid for through decades of taxation. By voting Neoliberal governments into power, we are effectively voting for people who when all of the vaneer of rhetoric and smart conservative appearance fades, are really nothing more than thieves and conmen who specifically got into power to split up and sell off our collective assets, like a diamond thief getting a Job at a jewellers shop so to speak.

Quarantine the virus

Like all prolific viruses a good quarantine measure can halt its spread, within the present context I am referring to we need to simply pull back from consuming, and begin producing locally and within a community setting when ever possible for it is within resources and how they are controlled and allocated where we can hit the virus. The latter stages of the capitalism virus has logic, and that logic within the present is to enslave people, control people through debt and resource scarcity and to continue to exploit resources from the natural world is they were infinite. The logic of deconstructing and dissolving capitalism must employ diverse tactics and strategies when dealing with such a widespread infection that has been imposed on the world.

A permanent culture beyond capitalism

Capitalism and its Political ideology Neoliberalism are responsible for a number of ongoing atrocities including the pollution and degradation of the natural world through the illusion of infinite growth; it is also responsible for the enslavement of billions of the world’s population, In the Neoliberal world its ideas and practices are the absolute antithesis to creating and bringing about a Permanent culture. The ethics of permaculture provide a powerful Post Neoliberal antidote which will enable all species of life to thrive, and now that we are actively in praxis it is our task to put these ethics into place within our own lives and others whom we interact with, for without them we stand little chance of developing any kind of just and long lasting world.

Steve