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Originally Posted by Gwaihir [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Those who would seek to usurp TPTB with hatred in their heart and bloodshed on their mind, do not seek to free this world from tyranny.

They merely seek to claim the one ring as their own, but the Ring of Power only has one master, and he does not share power.Attachment 14185

‘The market is … Leviathan in sheep’s clothing’, the theorist Fredric Jameson tells us; ‘its function is not to encourage and perpetuate freedom, but rather to repress it.’ Market ideology wears the outward trappings of freedom, but it forbids human beings from collectively and consciously taking their economic fate in hand, claiming that such initiatives can only lead to tragedy. We are lucky to be able to leave things up to the hidden God of the invisible hand, the Smithian market that turns private vices into public virtues and supposedly makes the clash of interests into something harmonious.

This myth leads to an abdication of the freedom to deliberate upon and thereby organise the future. It also means an abandonment of the possibility of revising such plans in tandem with the unfolding of the unexpected. Through the free-marketeer neoliberal project, societies abandon mastery over time to the impersonal mechanisms of finance. The latter thus gains a disciplinary power to which both public and private economic agents have to submit. Bankers’ and investors’ greed and macroeconomic instability each flow from this mechanism. But what makes up its very heart is fictitious capital: an accumulation of drawing rights on wealth that is yet to be produced, which takes the form of private and public indebtedness, stock-market capitalisation and various financial products.