Thanatopolitics and the deepening crisis of capitalism

Moderator's Note: "The markets are not working" and "capitalism is self-destructing." This is the message from the mainstream economist, Dr. Nouriel Roubini, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Of course, the antidote to this class war is a movement of the multitude - of the 90 percent of us that work for a wage, are unemployed, poor, homeless, displaced, and dispossessed; and who do not own capital but are the direct material and immaterial living labor source of the wealth appropriated by corporations as profiteering excess and hyper-speculation in the commodification of risk. The so-called excess capacity Roubini refers to is really a code word for "let them eat mud pies," like the displaced Haitians have done since the 2010 earthquake that we so quickly forgot. This crisis is capital's death march against the multitude: It is thanatopolitics: a direct attack on our ability to live. We face the prospect of mass extinctions of entire multitudes of human beings from climate change and other ravages unleashed by capital's second contradiction: The tendency to destroy the very natural conditions that are the basis of our collective existence. At ejfood we will continue to report on and analyze this growing social movement for autonomia - for our self-valorizing as human beings partnered with our localities and homes.

We present the video clip from Roubini's interview with WSJ.