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'''Anti-capitalism''' is a ] and ] encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose ]. In this sense, anti-capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of ], such as ], ], ], ], or some combination of the latter four. '''Anti-capitalism''' is a ] and ] encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose ]. In this sense, anti-capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of ], such as ] or ].

== History of movements ==
Anti-capitalism was widespread among workers in the ] in the ] and ], and ] was especially known as a center of anti-capitalist ] in that era.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrews |first=Thomas G. |title=Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War |publisher=] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-674-03101-2 |location=Cambridge |page=6 |author-link=Thomas G. Andrews (historian)}}</ref>


== Socialism == == Socialism ==
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# Socialists argue for a ]/community economy, or the ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/socialism |title=Socialism |date=2008 |website=]}}</ref> with democratic control by the people over the state, although there have been some undemocratic philosophies. "State" or "worker cooperative" ownership is in fundamental opposition to "private" ownership of ], which is a defining feature of capitalism. Most socialists argue that capitalism unfairly concentrates power, wealth and profit, among a small segment of society that controls ] and derives its wealth through ]. # Socialists argue for a ]/community economy, or the ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/socialism |title=Socialism |date=2008 |website=]}}</ref> with democratic control by the people over the state, although there have been some undemocratic philosophies. "State" or "worker cooperative" ownership is in fundamental opposition to "private" ownership of ], which is a defining feature of capitalism. Most socialists argue that capitalism unfairly concentrates power, wealth and profit, among a small segment of society that controls ] and derives its wealth through ].


Socialists argue that the accumulation of capital generates waste through ] that require costly corrective regulatory measures. They also point out that this process generates wasteful industries and practices that exist only to generate sufficient demand for products to be sold at a profit (such as high-pressure advertisement); thereby creating rather than satisfying economic demand.<ref name=WorldSocialism>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may10/page23.html |title=Let's produce for use, not profit |publisher=socialist standard |date=May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716140329/http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may10/page23.html |archive-date=July 16, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author=Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates |url=http://www.monthlyreview.org/091109magdoff-yates.php |title=What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View |magazine=Monthly Review |access-date=2014-02-23}}</ref> Socialists argue that the accumulation of capital generates waste through ] that require costly corrective regulatory measures. They also point out that this process generates wasteful industries and practices that exist only to generate sufficient demand for products to be sold at a profit (such as high-pressure advertisement); thereby creating rather than satisfying economic demand.<ref name=WorldSocialism>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may10/page23.html |title=Let's produce for use, not profit |publisher=socialist standard |date=May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716140329/http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may10/page23.html |archive-date=July 16, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author=Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates |url=http://www.monthlyreview.org/091109magdoff-yates.php |title=What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View |magazine=Monthly Review |access-date=2014-02-23}}</ref>


Socialists argue that capitalism consists of irrational activity, such as the purchasing of commodities only to sell at a later time when their price appreciates, rather than for consumption, even if the commodity cannot be sold at a profit to individuals in need; they argue that ''making money'', or accumulation of capital, does not correspond to the satisfaction of demand.<ref name=WorldSocialism /> Socialists argue that capitalism consists of irrational activity, such as the purchasing of commodities only to sell at a later time when their price appreciates, rather than for consumption, even if the commodity cannot be sold at a profit to individuals in need; they argue that ''making money'', or accumulation of capital, does not correspond to the satisfaction of demand.<ref name=WorldSocialism />


Private ownership imposes constraints on planning, leading to inaccessible economic decisions that result in immoral production, unemployment and a tremendous waste of material resources during crisis of ]. According to socialists, private property in the means of production becomes obsolete when it concentrates into centralized, socialized institutions based on private appropriation of revenue (but based on cooperative work and internal planning in allocation of inputs) until the role of the capitalist becomes redundant.<ref>Engels, Fredrich. ''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific''. Retrieved October 30, 2010, from Marxists.org: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm, "The bourgeoisie demonstrated to be a superfluous class. All its social functions are now performed by salaried employees."</ref> With no need for ] and a class of owners, private property in the means of production is perceived as being an outdated form of economic organization that should be replaced by a ] of individuals based on public or ] of these socialized assets.<ref>''The Political Economy of Socialism'', by Horvat, Branko. 1982. Chapter 1: Capitalism, The General Pattern of Capitalist Development (pp. 15–20)</ref> Socialists view ] relations as limiting the potential of ] in the economy.<ref name="Engels Selected Works 1968, p. 40">Marx and Engels Selected Works, Lawrence and Wishart, 1968, p. 40. Capitalist property relations put a "fetter" on the productive forces.</ref> Private ownership imposes constraints on planning, leading to inaccessible economic decisions that result in immoral production, unemployment and a tremendous waste of material resources during crisis of ]. According to socialists, private property in the means of production becomes obsolete when it concentrates into centralized, socialized institutions based on private appropriation of revenue (but based on cooperative work and internal planning in the allocation of inputs) until the role of the capitalist becomes redundant.<ref>Engels, Fredrich. ''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific''. Retrieved October 30, 2010, from Marxists.org: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm, "The bourgeoisie demonstrated to be a superfluous class. All its social functions are now performed by salaried employees."</ref> With no need for ] and a class of owners, private property in the means of production is perceived as being an outdated form of economic organization that should be replaced by a ] of individuals based on public or ] of these socialized assets.<ref>''The Political Economy of Socialism'', by Horvat, Branko. 1982. Chapter 1: Capitalism, The General Pattern of Capitalist Development (pp. 15–20)</ref> Socialists view ] relations as limiting the potential of ] in the economy.<ref name="Engels Selected Works 1968, p. 40">Marx and Engels Selected Works, Lawrence and Wishart, 1968, p. 40. Capitalist property relations put a "fetter" on the productive forces.</ref>


Early socialists (]s and ]) criticized capitalism for concentrating ] and ] within a small segment of society,<ref>in Encyclopædia Britannica (2009). Retrieved October 14, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism, "Main" summary: "Socialists complain that capitalism necessarily leads to unfair and exploitative concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of the relative few who emerge victorious from free-market competition—people who then use their wealth and power to reinforce their dominance in society."</ref> and for not utilising available ] and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public.<ref name="Engels Selected Works 1968, p. 40"/> Early socialists (]s and ]) criticized capitalism for concentrating ] and ] within a small segment of society,<ref>in Encyclopædia Britannica (2009). Retrieved October 14, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism, "Main" summary: "Socialists complain that capitalism necessarily leads to unfair and exploitative concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of the relative few who emerge victorious from free-market competition—people who then use their wealth and power to reinforce their dominance in society."</ref> and for not utilising available ] and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public.<ref name="Engels Selected Works 1968, p. 40"/>
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] famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."{{sfn|Goldman|2003|p=}}]] ] famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."{{sfn|Goldman|2003|p=}}]]
For the influential German ] philosopher ], "] is a spook" which "lives by the grace of law" and it "becomes 'mine' only by effect of the law". In other words, private property exists purely "through the protection of the State, through the State's grace." Recognising its need for state protection, Stirner argued that "t need not make any difference to the 'good citizens' who protects them and their principles, whether an absolute King or a constitutional one, a republic, if only they are protected. And what is their principle, whose protector they always 'love'? Not that of labour", rather it is "interest-bearing possession ... labouring capital, therefore ... labour certainly, yet little or none at all of one's own, but labour of capital and of the—subject labourers."<ref>{{cite web|author= Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin |url=http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionG6 |title=G.6 What are the ideas of Max Stirner? in An Anarchist FAQ |publisher=Infoshop.org |access-date=2010-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123154932/http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionG6 |archive-date=2010-11-23 }}</ref> French anarchist ] opposed government privilege that protects capitalist, banking and land interests, and the accumulation or acquisition of property (and any form of ] that led to it) which he believed hampers competition and keeps wealth in the hands of the few. The Spanish individualist anarchist ] saw:<ref>{{cite web |quote=el capitalismo es sólo el efecto del gobierno; desaparecido el gobierno, el capitalismo cae de su pedestal vertiginosamente...Lo que llamamos capitalismo no es otra cosa que el producto del Estado, dentro del cual lo único que se cultiva es la ganancia, bien o mal habida. Luchar, pues, contra el capitalismo es tarea inútil, porque sea Capitalismo de Estado o Capitalismo de Empresa, mientras el Gobierno exista, existirá el capital que explota. La lucha, pero de conciencias, es contra el Estado. |language=es |trans-quote=capitalism an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously...That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State. |url=http://www.kclibertaria.comyr.com/lpdf/l125.pdf |title=Anarquismo |trans-title=Anarchism |first=Miguel Gimenez |last=Igualada |author-link=Miguel Gimenez Igualada |access-date=2014-03-31 |archive-date=2017-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131205417/http://www.kclibertaria.comyr.com/lpdf/l125.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><blockquote>capitalism an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously...That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State.</blockquote>Within ] there emerged a critique of ], which refers to a situation perceived as quasi-],{{sfn|Ellerman|1992}} where a person's ] depends on ]s, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.<ref name="merriam-webster.com">{{cite dictionary |title=wage slave |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave |dictionary=] |access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title=wage slave |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wage%20slave |dictionary=] |access-date= 4 March 2013}}</ref> It is a ] term used to draw an analogy between ] and ] by focusing on similarities between owning and ] a person. The term ''wage slavery'' has been used to criticize ] and ], with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in ]),{{sfn|Sandel|1996|p=}} and the latter as a lack of ], fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.<ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu">{{cite web |url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |title=Conversation with Noam Chomsky |page=2|publisher=Globetrotter.berkeley.edu |access-date=2010-06-28}}</ref>{{sfn|Hallgrimsdottir|Benoit|2007}}<ref name="spunk.org">{{cite web |title=The Bolsheviks and Workers Control, 1917–1921: The State and Counter-revolution |url=http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html |publisher=] |access-date=4 March 2013 }}</ref> ] believe if freedom is valued, then society must work towards a system in which individuals have the power to decide economic issues along with political issues. Libertarian socialists seek to replace unjustified authority with ], voluntary federation, and popular autonomy in all aspects of life,<ref>Harrington, Austin, et al. ''Encyclopedia of Social Theory'' Routledge (2006) p. 50</ref> including physical communities and economic enterprises. With the advent of the ], thinkers such as ] and ] elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use,{{sfn|Proudhon|1890}}<ref name="Marx 1863 c7">{{Harvnb|Marx|1969|loc=}}</ref> ]s emphasized the ] brought about by machines, while later American anarchist ] famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."{{sfn|Goldman|2003|p=}} Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was incompatible with human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in ''Anarchism and Other Essays'', "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."<ref name="Goldman1917p54">Goldman, Emma. ''Anarchism and Other Essays''. 3rd ed. 1917. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1969., p. 54.</ref> She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."<ref name="Goldman1917p54" /> For the influential German ] philosopher ], "] is a spook" which "lives by the grace of law" and it "becomes 'mine' only by the effect of the law". In other words, private property exists purely "through the protection of the State, through the State's grace." Recognising its need for state protection, Stirner argued that "t need not make any difference to the 'good citizens' who protects them and their principles, whether an absolute King or a constitutional one, a republic if only they are protected. And what is their principle, whose protector they always 'love'? Not that of labour", rather it is "interest-bearing possession ... labouring capital, therefore ... labour certainly, yet little or none at all of one's own, but labour of capital and of the—subject labourers."<ref>{{cite web|author= Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin |url=http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionG6 |title=G.6 What are the ideas of Max Stirner? in An Anarchist FAQ |publisher=Infoshop.org |access-date=2010-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123154932/http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionG6 |archive-date=2010-11-23 }}</ref> French anarchist ] opposed government privilege that protects capitalist, banking and land interests, and the accumulation or acquisition of property (and any form of ] that led to it) which he believed hampers competition and keeps wealth in the hands of the few. The Spanish individualist anarchist ] saw:<ref>{{cite web |quote=el capitalismo es sólo el efecto del gobierno; desaparecido el gobierno, el capitalismo cae de su pedestal vertiginosamente...Lo que llamamos capitalismo no es otra cosa que el producto del Estado, dentro del cual lo único que se cultiva es la ganancia, bien o mal habida. Luchar, pues, contra el capitalismo es tarea inútil, porque sea Capitalismo de Estado o Capitalismo de Empresa, mientras el Gobierno exista, existirá el capital que explota. La lucha, pero de conciencias, es contra el Estado. |language=es |trans-quote=capitalism an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously...That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State. |url=http://www.kclibertaria.comyr.com/lpdf/l125.pdf |title=Anarquismo |trans-title=Anarchism |first=Miguel Gimenez |last=Igualada |author-link=Miguel Gimenez Igualada |access-date=2014-03-31 |archive-date=2017-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131205417/http://www.kclibertaria.comyr.com/lpdf/l125.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><blockquote>capitalism an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously...That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State.</blockquote>Within ] there emerged a critique of ], which refers to a situation perceived as quasi-],{{sfn|Ellerman|1992}} where a person's ] depends on ]s, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.<ref name="merriam-webster.com">{{cite dictionary |title=wage slave |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave |dictionary=] |access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title=wage slave |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wage%20slave |dictionary=] |access-date= 4 March 2013}}</ref> It is a ] term used to draw an analogy between ] and ] by focusing on similarities between owning and ] a person. The term ''wage slavery'' has been used to criticize ] and ], with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in ]),{{sfn|Sandel|1996|p=}} and the latter as a lack of ], fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.<ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu">{{cite web |url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |title=Conversation with Noam Chomsky |page=2 |publisher=Globetrotter.berkeley.edu |access-date=2010-06-28 |archive-date=2019-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919041544/http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{sfn|Hallgrimsdottir|Benoit|2007}}<ref name="spunk.org">{{cite web |title=The Bolsheviks and Workers Control, 1917–1921: The State and Counter-revolution |url=http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html |publisher=] |access-date=4 March 2013 }}</ref> ] believe if freedom is valued, then society must work towards a system in which individuals have the power to decide economic issues along with political issues. Libertarian socialists seek to replace unjustified authority with ], voluntary federation, and popular autonomy in all aspects of life,<ref>Harrington, Austin, et al. ''Encyclopedia of Social Theory'' Routledge (2006) p. 50</ref> including physical communities and economic enterprises. With the advent of the ], thinkers such as ] and ] elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use,{{sfn|Proudhon|1890}}<ref name="Marx 1863 c7">{{Harvnb|Marx|1969|loc=}}</ref> ]s emphasized the ] brought about by machines, while later American anarchist ] famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."{{sfn|Goldman|2003|p=}} Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was incompatible with human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in ''Anarchism and Other Essays'', "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."<ref name="Goldman1917p54">Goldman, Emma. ''Anarchism and Other Essays''. 3rd ed. 1917. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1969., p. 54.</ref> She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."<ref name="Goldman1917p54" />


] contends that there is little moral difference between chattel slavery and renting one's self to an owner or "wage slavery". He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that undermines individual freedom. He holds that workers should own and control their workplace.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |title=Conversation with Noam Chomsky, p. 2 of 5 |publisher=Globetrotter.berkeley.edu |access-date=August 16, 2011}}</ref> Many libertarian socialists argue that large-scale voluntary associations should manage industrial manufacture, while workers retain rights to the individual products of their labor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lindemann |first=Albert S. |author-link=Albert S. Lindemann |title=A History of European Socialism |publisher=] |date=1983 |pages=160}}</ref> As such, they see a distinction between the concepts of "private property" and "]". Whereas "private property" grants an individual exclusive control over a thing whether it is in use or not, and regardless of its productive capacity, "possession" grants no rights to things that are not in use.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ely |first=Richard |author-link=Richard T. Ely |display-authors=etal |title=Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth |publisher=The Macmillan Company |date=1914}}</ref> ] contends that there is little moral difference between chattel slavery and renting one's self to an owner or "wage slavery". He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that undermines individual freedom. He holds that workers should own and control their workplace.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |title=Conversation with Noam Chomsky, p. 2 of 5 |publisher=Globetrotter.berkeley.edu |access-date=August 16, 2011 |archive-date=September 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919041544/http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many libertarian socialists argue that large-scale voluntary associations should manage industrial manufacture, while workers retain rights to the individual products of their labor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lindemann |first=Albert S. |author-link=Albert S. Lindemann |title=A History of European Socialism |publisher=] |date=1983 |pages=160}}</ref> As such, they see a distinction between the concepts of "private property" and "]". Whereas "private property" grants an individual exclusive control over a thing whether it is in use or not, and regardless of its productive capacity, "possession" grants no rights to things that are not in use.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ely |first=Richard |author-link=Richard T. Ely |display-authors=etal |title=Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth |publisher=The Macmillan Company |date=1914}}</ref>


In addition to individualist anarchist ]'s "big four" monopolies (land, money, tariffs, and patents), ] argues that the ] has also transferred wealth to the wealthy by subsidizing organizational centralization, in the form of transportation and communication subsidies. He believes that Tucker overlooked this issue due to Tucker's focus on individual market transactions, whereas Carson also focuses on organizational issues. Carson holds that "capitalism, arising as a new class society directly from the old class society of the ], was founded on an act of robbery as massive as the earlier ] conquest of the land. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege without which its survival is unimaginable."<ref name=Richman>Richman, Sheldon, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814153531/http://www.amconmag.com/blog/libertarian-left/ |date=2011-08-14 }}, '']'' (March 2011)</ref> Carson coined the ] term "vulgar libertarianism", a phrase that describes the use of a free market rhetoric in defense of ] and ]. According to Carson, the term is derived from the phrase "vulgar political economy", which ] described as an economic order that "deliberately becomes increasingly apologetic and makes strenuous attempts to talk out of existence the ideas which contain the contradictions ."{{sfn|Marx|1969|p=501}} In addition to individualist anarchist ]'s "big four" monopolies (land, money, tariffs, and patents), ] argues that the ] has also transferred wealth to the wealthy by subsidizing organizational centralization, in the form of transportation and communication subsidies. He believes that Tucker overlooked this issue due to Tucker's focus on individual market transactions, whereas Carson also focuses on organizational issues. Carson holds that "capitalism, arising as a new class society directly from the old class society of the ], was founded on an act of robbery as massive as the earlier ] conquest of the land. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege without which its survival is unimaginable."<ref name=Richman>Richman, Sheldon, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814153531/http://www.amconmag.com/blog/libertarian-left/ |date=2011-08-14 }}, '']'' (March 2011)</ref> Carson coined the ] term "vulgar libertarianism", a phrase that describes the use of a free market rhetoric in defense of ] and ]. According to Carson, the term is derived from the phrase "vulgar political economy", which ] described as an economic order that "deliberately becomes increasingly apologetic and makes strenuous attempts to talk out of existence the ideas which contain the contradictions ."{{sfn|Marx|1969|p=501}}
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=== Contemporary anti-capitalism === === Contemporary anti-capitalism ===
Inspired by Marxist thought, the ] in Germany was established in 1923, with the purpose of analyzing the superstructure. Marx defined the superstructure as the ] and mores reflecting the economic base of capitalism. Through the 1930s, the Frankfurt School, led by thinkers such as ] and ] created the philosophical movement of ]. Later, Critical theorist ] noted that the universality of modern worldviews posed a threat to marginalized perspectives outside of western rationality. While Critical Theory emphasized the social issues stemming from capitalism with intention towards liberating humanity, it did not directly offer an alternative economic model. Instead its analysis shifted attention to the reinforcement of existing power dynamics through statecraft and a complicit citizenry. Inspired by Marxist thought, the ] in Germany was established in 1923, with the purpose of analyzing the superstructure. Marx defined the superstructure as the ] and mores reflecting the economic base of capitalism. Through the 1930s, the Frankfurt School, led by thinkers such as ] and ] created the philosophical movement of ]. Later, Critical theorist ] noted that the universality of modern worldviews posed a threat to marginalized perspectives outside of western rationality. While Critical Theory emphasized the social issues stemming from capitalism with the intention towards liberating humanity, it did not directly offer an alternative economic model. Instead its analysis shifted attention to the reinforcement of existing power dynamics through statecraft and a complicit citizenry.


In turn, Critical Theory inspired postmodern philosophers such as ] to conceptualize how we form identities through social interaction.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Agger |first1=Ben |title=Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance |journal=] |date=1991 |volume=17 |pages=105–131 |doi=10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541 |jstor=2083337}}</ref> During the 1960s and 1970s the global political movement called the ] explored what liberation entailed through social activism on behalf of these identities. Therefore, socialist identifying movements critical of capitalism extended their reach beyond purely economic considerations and became involved in anti-war and civil rights movements. Later this postmodern activism centered around identities regarding ethnicity, gender, orientation, and race would influence more direct anti-capitalist movements.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farred |first1=Grant |title=Endgame Identity? Mapping the New Left Roots of Identity Politics |journal=] |date=2000 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=627–648 |doi=10.1353/nlh.2000.0045 |jstor=20057628 |s2cid=144650061}}</ref> In turn, Critical Theory inspired postmodern philosophers such as ] to conceptualize how we form identities through social interaction.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Agger |first1=Ben |title=Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance |journal=] |date=1991 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=105–131 |doi=10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541 |jstor=2083337}}</ref> During the 1960s and 1970s the global political movement called the ] explored what liberation entailed through social activism on behalf of these identities. Therefore, socialist identifying movements critical of capitalism extended their reach beyond purely economic considerations and became involved in anti-war and civil rights movements. Later this postmodern activism centered around identities regarding ethnicity, gender, orientation, and race would influence more direct anti-capitalist movements.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farred |first1=Grant |title=Endgame Identity? Mapping the New Left Roots of Identity Politics |journal=] |date=2000 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=627–648 |doi=10.1353/nlh.2000.0045 |jstor=20057628 |s2cid=144650061}}</ref>


New critiques of capitalism also developed in accordance with modern concerns. ] and ] oppose what they view as the sweeping ] and pro-corporate capitalism that spread internationally in the wake of the Soviet Union’s fall. They are particularly critical of international financial institutions and regulations such as the ], ], and ]. In response they promote the autonomy of sovereign people and the importance of environmental concerns as priorities over international market participation. Notable examples of contemporary anti-globalist movements include Mexico’s ]. The ], began in 2002, is an annual international event dedicated to countering capitalist globalization through networking of attending organizations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Jeremy |title=Anticapitalism and culture: radical theory and popular politics |date=2008 |publisher=Berg |isbn=978-1-84788-451-0 |url=https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-273844 |chapter=Another World Is Possible: The Anti-Capitalist Movement |pages=75–106}}</ref> New critiques of capitalism also developed in accordance with modern concerns. ] and ] oppose what they view as the sweeping ] and pro-corporate capitalism that spread internationally in the wake of the Soviet Union's fall. They are particularly critical of international financial institutions and regulations such as the ], ], and ]. In response, they promote the autonomy of sovereign people and the importance of environmental concerns as priorities over international market participation. Notable examples of contemporary anti-globalist movements include Mexico's ]. The ], began in 2002, is an annual international event dedicated to countering capitalist globalization through networking of attending organizations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Jeremy |title=Anticapitalism and culture: radical theory and popular politics |date=2008 |publisher=Berg |isbn=978-1-84788-451-0 |url=https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-273844 |chapter=Another World Is Possible: The Anti-Capitalist Movement |pages=75–106}}</ref>


According to historian ], the ideological space for anti-capitalism in the United States shrank significantly with the end of the ] and the globalization of capitalism, forcing the left to "redefine their radicalism in alternative terms" by heavily focusing on multiculturalism and partisan culture war issues, which "turned out to be those that the capitalist system could more, rather than less, easily manage."{{sfn|Gerstle|2022|p=149}} Late philosopher ] referred to this phenomenon as ]: "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."{{sfn|Fisher|2009|p=2}} According to historian ], the ideological space for anti-capitalism in the United States shrank significantly with the end of the ] and the globalization of capitalism, forcing the left to "redefine their radicalism in alternative terms" by heavily focusing on multiculturalism and partisan culture war issues, which "turned out to be those that the capitalist system could more, rather than less, easily manage."{{sfn|Gerstle|2022|p=149}} Late philosopher ] referred to this phenomenon as ]: "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."{{sfn|Fisher|2009|p=2}}
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Political ideology and movement opposed to capitalism This article is about the political movement opposed to capitalism. For arguments against capitalism, see Criticism of capitalism.
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Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. In this sense, anti-capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of economic system, such as socialism or communism.

History of movements

Anti-capitalism was widespread among workers in the United States in the 1900s and 1910s, and Colorado was especially known as a center of anti-capitalist labor movements in that era.

Socialism

Main article: Socialism
Karl Marx, considered by many as one of the founding fathers of anti-capitalist thought

Socialism advocates public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals, with an egalitarian method of compensation.

  1. A theory or policy of social organisation which aims at or advocates the ownership and democratic control of the means of production, by workers or the community as a whole, and their administration or distribution in the interests of all.
  2. Socialists argue for a worker cooperative/community economy, or the commanding heights of the economy, with democratic control by the people over the state, although there have been some undemocratic philosophies. "State" or "worker cooperative" ownership is in fundamental opposition to "private" ownership of means of production, which is a defining feature of capitalism. Most socialists argue that capitalism unfairly concentrates power, wealth and profit, among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation.

Socialists argue that the accumulation of capital generates waste through externalities that require costly corrective regulatory measures. They also point out that this process generates wasteful industries and practices that exist only to generate sufficient demand for products to be sold at a profit (such as high-pressure advertisement); thereby creating rather than satisfying economic demand.

Socialists argue that capitalism consists of irrational activity, such as the purchasing of commodities only to sell at a later time when their price appreciates, rather than for consumption, even if the commodity cannot be sold at a profit to individuals in need; they argue that making money, or accumulation of capital, does not correspond to the satisfaction of demand.

Private ownership imposes constraints on planning, leading to inaccessible economic decisions that result in immoral production, unemployment and a tremendous waste of material resources during crisis of overproduction. According to socialists, private property in the means of production becomes obsolete when it concentrates into centralized, socialized institutions based on private appropriation of revenue (but based on cooperative work and internal planning in the allocation of inputs) until the role of the capitalist becomes redundant. With no need for capital accumulation and a class of owners, private property in the means of production is perceived as being an outdated form of economic organization that should be replaced by a free association of individuals based on public or common ownership of these socialized assets. Socialists view private property relations as limiting the potential of productive forces in the economy.

Early socialists (Utopian socialists and Ricardian socialists) criticized capitalism for concentrating power and wealth within a small segment of society, and for not utilising available technology and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public.

Anarchism and libertarian socialism

Main articles: Anarchism and Libertarian socialism See also: Anarchist economics and Socialist economics
Emma Goldman famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."

For the influential German individualist anarchist philosopher Max Stirner, "private property is a spook" which "lives by the grace of law" and it "becomes 'mine' only by the effect of the law". In other words, private property exists purely "through the protection of the State, through the State's grace." Recognising its need for state protection, Stirner argued that "t need not make any difference to the 'good citizens' who protects them and their principles, whether an absolute King or a constitutional one, a republic if only they are protected. And what is their principle, whose protector they always 'love'? Not that of labour", rather it is "interest-bearing possession ... labouring capital, therefore ... labour certainly, yet little or none at all of one's own, but labour of capital and of the—subject labourers." French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon opposed government privilege that protects capitalist, banking and land interests, and the accumulation or acquisition of property (and any form of coercion that led to it) which he believed hampers competition and keeps wealth in the hands of the few. The Spanish individualist anarchist Miguel Giménez Igualada saw:

capitalism an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously...That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State.

Within anarchism there emerged a critique of wage slavery, which refers to a situation perceived as quasi-voluntary slavery, where a person's livelihood depends on wages, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. Libertarian socialists believe if freedom is valued, then society must work towards a system in which individuals have the power to decide economic issues along with political issues. Libertarian socialists seek to replace unjustified authority with direct democracy, voluntary federation, and popular autonomy in all aspects of life, including physical communities and economic enterprises. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use, Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines, while later American anarchist Emma Goldman famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves." Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was incompatible with human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in Anarchism and Other Essays, "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade." She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."

Noam Chomsky contends that there is little moral difference between chattel slavery and renting one's self to an owner or "wage slavery". He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that undermines individual freedom. He holds that workers should own and control their workplace. Many libertarian socialists argue that large-scale voluntary associations should manage industrial manufacture, while workers retain rights to the individual products of their labor. As such, they see a distinction between the concepts of "private property" and "personal possession". Whereas "private property" grants an individual exclusive control over a thing whether it is in use or not, and regardless of its productive capacity, "possession" grants no rights to things that are not in use.

In addition to individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker's "big four" monopolies (land, money, tariffs, and patents), Kevin Carson argues that the state has also transferred wealth to the wealthy by subsidizing organizational centralization, in the form of transportation and communication subsidies. He believes that Tucker overlooked this issue due to Tucker's focus on individual market transactions, whereas Carson also focuses on organizational issues. Carson holds that "capitalism, arising as a new class society directly from the old class society of the Middle Ages, was founded on an act of robbery as massive as the earlier feudal conquest of the land. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege without which its survival is unimaginable." Carson coined the pejorative term "vulgar libertarianism", a phrase that describes the use of a free market rhetoric in defense of corporate capitalism and economic inequality. According to Carson, the term is derived from the phrase "vulgar political economy", which Karl Marx described as an economic order that "deliberately becomes increasingly apologetic and makes strenuous attempts to talk out of existence the ideas which contain the contradictions ."

Marxism

Main article: Marxism
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production.

Karl Marx saw capitalism as a historical stage, once progressive but which would eventually stagnate due to internal contradictions and would eventually be followed by socialism. Marx claimed that capitalism was nothing more than a necessary stepping stone for the progression of man, which would then face a political revolution before embracing the classless society.

Contemporary anti-capitalism

Inspired by Marxist thought, the Frankfurt School in Germany was established in 1923, with the purpose of analyzing the superstructure. Marx defined the superstructure as the social stratification and mores reflecting the economic base of capitalism. Through the 1930s, the Frankfurt School, led by thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer created the philosophical movement of critical theory. Later, Critical theorist Jürgen Habermas noted that the universality of modern worldviews posed a threat to marginalized perspectives outside of western rationality. While Critical Theory emphasized the social issues stemming from capitalism with the intention towards liberating humanity, it did not directly offer an alternative economic model. Instead its analysis shifted attention to the reinforcement of existing power dynamics through statecraft and a complicit citizenry.

In turn, Critical Theory inspired postmodern philosophers such as Michel Foucault to conceptualize how we form identities through social interaction. During the 1960s and 1970s the global political movement called the New Left explored what liberation entailed through social activism on behalf of these identities. Therefore, socialist identifying movements critical of capitalism extended their reach beyond purely economic considerations and became involved in anti-war and civil rights movements. Later this postmodern activism centered around identities regarding ethnicity, gender, orientation, and race would influence more direct anti-capitalist movements.

New critiques of capitalism also developed in accordance with modern concerns. Anti-globalization and alter-globalization oppose what they view as the sweeping neoliberal and pro-corporate capitalism that spread internationally in the wake of the Soviet Union's fall. They are particularly critical of international financial institutions and regulations such as the IMF, WTO, and free trade agreements. In response, they promote the autonomy of sovereign people and the importance of environmental concerns as priorities over international market participation. Notable examples of contemporary anti-globalist movements include Mexico's EZLN. The World Social Forum, began in 2002, is an annual international event dedicated to countering capitalist globalization through networking of attending organizations.

According to historian Gary Gerstle, the ideological space for anti-capitalism in the United States shrank significantly with the end of the Cold War and the globalization of capitalism, forcing the left to "redefine their radicalism in alternative terms" by heavily focusing on multiculturalism and partisan culture war issues, which "turned out to be those that the capitalist system could more, rather than less, easily manage." Late philosopher Mark Fisher referred to this phenomenon as capitalist realism: "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."

See also

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