Étiquette : Jeff Shantz

Culling The Working Class: Acceleration and the Period of Capitalist Democide | Jeff Shantz (December,2025)

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Capital has lost its patience with keeping unneeded working-class people alive. Notably in the very center of advanced capital and so-called liberal democracies (“the West”). Any and all social policies that even minimally address the needs of the unneeded working class—social housing, welfare, shelters, disability benefits, harm reduction, etc.)—are drains on accumulation. They are, from capital’s perspective, wasted resources, unacceptable costs—at a time when capital needs to squeeze out all it can get.

Murder Infrastructures: Capitalist Eliminationism, Acceleration, and Democide | Jeff Shantz (Canada, 2025)

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Capitalism has moved into a stage of open mass culling of the working class—starting with those currently deemed unusable (as workers or consumers). This is a rapidly escalating period of democide—state killing of its own populations—for capital. For purposes—requirements—of accumulation. It will increasingly expand that category as fewer and fewer workers and consumers are needed to maintain profitability.

Infrastructures of Resistance and Survival Toward Revolution: Reframing Reform v. Revolution Debates | Jeff Shantz (2024)

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Working class infrastructures of resistance can take many forms—workers centers, free schools, cooperative food production, communal childcare, defense committees, collective housing, and more. They provide resources, venues, and logistics for supporting and sustaining struggles on a longer term basis. They also provide space for developing revolutionary consciousness, strategies, and tactics. Grounded in working class communities, relationships, and experiences. We need to focus on building the resources and infrastructures that get us through the current capitalist hellscape while also increasing our capacities to fight toward revolution.