About Unlearning Capitalism
Educational and inspirational resources to help us imagine the end of capitalism instead of the end of the world.
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
ā Karl Marx
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
ā Karl Marx
What is Unlearning Capitalism?
Unlearning Capitalism is a curated directory of educational resources for radical political education focused on building a better world beyond capitalism: websites, podcasts, video channels and in-person organizations.
These resources are spread across many different countries, disciplines and topics but all are united by a focus on uncompromising anti-imperialism, a dialectical approach to understanding the world, a love of humanity and our planet and a firm rejection of the billionaire-owned capitalist media narrative.
Articles, research papers, dossiers, podcasts, in-depth videos, journalism, organizations, direct action, art and more; presented with the intention to increase your understanding of the world and the forces driving it.
If you enjoy this site and the resources collected herein, please share in your in-person networks, to your friends and family and across social media.
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Inspiration
The contradictions of capitalism have progressed to the point of threatening our very existence on this planet.
Driven by the rapacious consumption and greed of the western nations as they adhere to the logic of capital - the logic of the cancer cell - these contradictions have brought us to a major inflection point in our collective history.
Within the nations that make up the imperial core a billionaire-owned and corporate-controlled media environment has given rise to the most propagandized society the world has ever known.
To counter this development - to have a hope of achieving the better world we know is possible - radical education and inspiration are essential.
This website aims to make high quality, non-mainstream educational resources easily available and accessible in order to enrich, in some small way, the political and social consciousness of the masses.
The research, articles, podcasts, videos and collections here cover all aspects of a well-rounded political education on the reality of the world: politics, society, philosophy, economics, culture, analysis, journalism, resistance, art and more.
The aim of the content curation presented here is to capture narratives and perspectives from outside of the western and capitalist-dominated mental landscape that surrounds us every day like the water surrounding a fish: unseen but ever present.
The inspiration for the site came after many conversations - both in-person and online - that highlighted the need for an accessible and easy to navigate website containing counter narratives that could be shared with a simple effort.
This is a place to easily access the vast and already-existing online wealth of research, knowledge, inspiration and movements that are often difficult to find all in one place.
The material on this site is presented with great respect and appreciation for all of the comrades that have worked to create it.
Principles
"Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat."
ā Frantz Fanon
While the sources collected on this site are diverse and cover many areas of study and knowledge - and no collection of this type can or even should attempt to achieve unanimity of thought - the curation of the site follows the spirit of these principles.
1. The primary contradiction is US and western imperialism.
This means our focus must be first and foremost on opposing the violence and barbarism of imperialism, even when that means supporting countries and organizations that themselves contain internal contradictions. Desiring perfection is idealism, building socialism is the goal and that goal is impossible while US empire dominates.
2. Left-wing starts at anti-capitalism.
This means a steadfast rejection of liberalism and a refusal to retreat into acceptance of the status quo that sees the vast majority of humanity deprived of material necessities for the benefit of the few - the capitalists, the Epstein class, the bourgeoisie, the billionaires.
3. The west is not humanity.
This means that creating a just world requires reorienting the productive forces of humanity to serve, respect and uplift the Global Majority. Only around 15% of the world lives in the so-called western countries; the vast majority of humanity is not well-served by the systems of world power.
4. Anti-Zionism is non-negotiable.
This means the genocidal European settler-colony of "Israel" has no right to exist, the right of occupied indigenous people to armed resistance against their occupiers is a given and the recognition that Zionism and the networks it sustains are the Nazis of today must be explicit.
5. Only communism can defeat capitalism.
This means the science of dialectical and historical materialism must aim to transform the world, not merely interpret it; we must reject dogmatic, non-threatening to capital and anticommunist strains of Western Marxism in favour of genuinely anti-imperialist Marxism-Leninism.
An understanding of the world gathered from studying its tendencies, patterns and history in a holistic and dialectical sense, guided by a principled moral framework and a desire for the creation of a more evolved human society will lead inevitably to the principles described above.
To a world free from the suffering and insanity created by the hegemony of capitalism.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
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How to Use
The main page of the site is divided into three main areas.
āļø Resources
Resources are websites and pages across various media types.
Filterable by Topic; combine multiple topics to narrow your search.
š Publication - Academic publications or magazines publishing well-sourced material.
šŗ Video - Video format education or reporting such as YouTube channels.
š¤ Journalism - Independent news media, channels and on-the-ground reporting.
š± Social Media - New media formats, political content creation and education.
šļø Podcast - Audio format political information, discussions, culture, stories and interviews.
š» Blog - Online blogs such as Substack or independently published journals and writings.
š©Action - In-person organization: political parties, direct action, movements, courses and activism.
š Search
Search a growing and up-to-date list of individual articles.
All search results are sourced from the list of Resources.
Searchable by contents or subject or filterable by Topic.
š Read - text format articles, searchable by full text content.
š§ Listen - Podcasts, searchable by transcribed content.
(šļø Podcasts also feature a full player for listening on the page.)
šļø Video episodes coming soon šļø
šļø Watch - YouTube or other videos, searchable by transcribed content.
šļø Collections
šļø Coming soon šļø
Collections are hand-curated lists of information on specific subjects.
Articles, research papers, books, documentaries, podcasts or video episodes.
Created to be able to easily share a collection of information from diverse sources on a single issue for educational purposes.