Anti-Capitalism

Since roughly 1999, a lexicon of anti-capitalism and anti-globalism as forms of protest and political activism has become commonplace in first world political discourse. Confusion about the nature of anti-capitalist belief, and anti-capitalist protest, arises because votes are determined by political appearance more than the root causes of issues. Thus many unwittingly defend that which they revile, and others become political supporters of propositions to eliminate ideologies upon which their theses depend. Such is the case of many who support capitalism, and at least a few movements within the anti-capitalist underground.

As anti-capitalist advocates and activists against globalism and the neoliberal values that support it, we must carefully consider our own attitudes toward the values which create capitalism in our haste to protest the negative effects of global capital, transnational corporations and multinational investment. Since the media is owned entirely by capitalists, and both left and right wing benefit from the capital investment of multi-national corporations, we are left on our own in anti-capitalism study.

The best view of anti-capitalism is perhaps one which does not make the error of capitalism, and presents without regard to popularity or money-making potential the different options for opposing capitalism in both academic theory and history, giving the modern anti-capital activist an ability to understand the system he or she opposes without regurgitating its imprinted values and thus creating in anti-capitalist revolt a stronger system of capitalism than previously existed.