With the advent of technologically advanced societies that by their
nature are highly interdependent on one another, capitalisms survival,
now more than ever, relies upon our division: hence the need for
ruling-class propagandists to relentlessly emphasise our brutal natures
to the exclusion of our caring habits. Elites repeat/ad Infinium/that
there is no alternative to their preferred capitalist system – a
bankrupt political and economic system that asserts the dominion of
profit making over all other human priorities. And to justify this
nonsense they need to assert that their preferred system is well adapted
to harnessing humanities true biological inclinations which they
characterise as being dominated by aggression and competition.
This is by no means a new debate and remains a perennial topic for
discussion by those seeking to promote socialist change. Therefore, the
publication of Rutger Bregman’s 2020 book/Humankind: A Hopeful History/
<https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316418536/counterpunchmaga>provides
us with a welcome opportunity to take a fresh look at ways of overcoming
the daily violence that we all face because of capitalisms deeply
pessimistic and ill-informed view of human nature.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/02/why-kindness-is-not-enough/
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