A lot of people are fine with sanctions because they think that sanctions can be targeted and refined to an extent that they don’t hurt anyone but the people they are allegedly intended to hurt. They don’t look into how sanctions cause suffering to ordinary working people in a targeted country. Sanctions are not a non-violent alternative to warfare, they are just an economic, rather than military, form of violence
“The interests of the working class are the interests of all; the interests of the bourgeoisie are the interests of capital, which are the interests of no-one.”
“The political parties of the working class — we speak of Germany and Italy — have disappeared; only the leaders in exile continue to speak as if they were the parties. This does not mean that they have disappeared forever. If there should come an uprising of the working class, they will come back and present themselves again as leaders. They must he vanquished for the second time, now by the workers, by conscious recognition that they are obsolete.”
“As Fredric Jameson has argued, capitalism is the most collective society that has ever existed on earth, in the sense that even the most banal object is the product of a massive web of interdependence. At the moment, this global network is stupid and venal; but rather than abandoning it in favour of some return to agrarianism that will only be possible on the basis of a catastrophe, we need to make the planetary network an intelligent system that can act in the interests of the majority, instead of the tiny minority that profit under the current system.”
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Mark Fisher in Strike! Magazine. Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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