Posts Tagged 'Capitalism'

Industry translation is a capitalist racket. Guerrilla Translation is the ethical choice.
GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, Timothy McKeon

Industry translation is a capitalist racket. Guerrilla Translation is the ethical choice.

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It’s difficult to hold on to your ideals in any industry that is trying to thrive and expand within the capitalist system. Job competitiveness will ensure that wages are kept low as workers are forced to undercut each other until the work no longer provides a living wage. Meanwhile, the revenue generated by the industry is invested in technology that will eventually make the workers obsolete. The translation industry is no different.

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”
Activism, Decolonialism, Feminism, Interview, Meritxell Rigol

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

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What better argument to justify these pockets of poverty than to say that they’re poor because they want to be that way? Because that’s just how they are. That’s just how they want to be. Anti-Roma racism is actually very useful for justifying that capitalism works. I mean, it leaves the system intact. It’s not that the system couldn’t eradicate poverty, it’s not that there isn’t enough work for everyone; it’s just that the poor are poor because they want to be.

A New Pandemic Age for a Devastated Planet
Environment, Essay, Marina Aizen, Translation

A New Pandemic Age for a Devastated Planet

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Bats, mosquitos, rats and pangolins are not to be blamed for epidemics. The fault lies with us and what we do with the ecosystems that these animals live in—how we manipulate and bring these animals into a new, artificial environment. That is the real cause of the coronavirus, something that will probably cost us a global recession. In other words, mutilating ecosystems comes with a very steep price.

calimaq, Essay, Featured, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism

Are the Digital Commons condemned to become “Capital Commons”?

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If Google and Facebook are to pay, they must be obliged to do so, just as industrial capitalists have come to be obliged to contribute to the financing of the social state through compulsory contributions. This model must be reinvented today, and we could imagine states – or better still the European Union – subjecting major platforms to taxation in order to finance a social right to the contribution open to individuals.