Socialism and Other Fun Experiments to Try at Home

Yes, capitalism is filled with opportunities for corruption: 

but in it’s purest form, it is corruption:

cooperation becomes competition,

productivity becomes profit,

organisation becomes exploitation,

community becomes alienation,

the human becomes the inhuman. 

Yes, rich people take advantage to maximize their profits:

but it is the existence of ‘profit’ in the first place which is the fundamental issue.

Exploitation is not a trick played on a ignorant people: 

it’s the basis of the system which brings that people into existence. 

‘Rich people’ are not rich because they are criminals: 

but because they are members of a class. 

You are not poor because politicians take back-handers: 

you are poor because the wealth of the world relies on your poverty. 

Every day you go to work and do not receive the full value of that work: 

it isn’t a crime, 

it isn’t corrupt,

it is the way in which all wealth is produced, 

you must work in order that you do not starve,

because of your poverty.

Capitalism relies on your poverty continuing:

otherwise, you will not work, you will not be exploited, you will not produce value for capital.

There are no conspiracies: 

the facts are apparent. 

Capitalism announces itself as inhuman through: 

the form of the commodity, 

wage labour, 

private property.

There will be no salvation from the law. 

The law creates the conditions for capitalism and the circulation of capital.

That some people hide that circulation does not change the nature of capital and capitalism.

The answer is not a better and more honest capitalism,

the answer is not shutting down tax havens,

the answer is not taxing the rich,

I’m so mad right now because nobody is talking about this, and while everyone is ignoring her death people from where she lived are speaking about “how heartbroken” they are while they misgender her and put the word female in quotations 

and i haven’t seen a single article using her correct pronouns

yes lush products can be pricey, they’re not always in everybody’s price range I completely understand that, and yes they can be in weird formulas, or too ~au naturale~ for some people

cool, if you don’t like their products that’s fine by me but there’s no need to throw shade at other people for it

the reasons the prices can be high is because not only do lush try to ethically source absolutely every ingredient possible, but they do their god damn fucking best to pay everyone involved in the process a fair wage

how many other big beauty companies that use sandalwood in their products try to source it in a way that helps support indigenous australian communities?

how many other companies give all the proceeds of a body scrub minus government tax to a fund that is trying to help save the great barrier reef?

how many other companies not only hire openly trans and queer people without blinking but also support them and their potential struggles in the workplace and do campaigns for their rights?

how many other beauty companies are not only 100% against animal testing for their products but have been making efforts and campaigns for years to try and outlaw animal testing for cosmetics globally?

like boo hoo you find it dumb that a product has sand in it and don’t like that it’s getting popular with other people

Not only this, but Lush should most certainly not be held up as a bastion of “caring capitalism” (what a joke of a name). As I said before, Lush is a capitalist corporation, and the only reason they exist is to turn a profit,  they have an excellent marketing team, which is why they have this deceitful reputation as a nice, human-rights conscious company, however that marketing team does exactly that, it markets, it sees what issue is in the spotlight and it “acts” on that.

This is why Lush is happy to boycott Isreal when the world’s media is talking about it. This is also why Lush continues to support expansion of their brand in Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia (as well as other countries with a disgusting human rights record), which according to the human rights group Freedom House, score worse in political and civil freedoms by several magnitudes.

On top of this, Lush has been accused multiple times of normalising male-on-female violence (source), have campaigned for reduced air traffic while simultaneously flying regularly and opening stores inside airports, and tricking people into believing they pay their workers a living wage (when in fact they only pay that in the London, guaranteeing just 50p more than minimum outside of it).