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Lactose-free terrorism
Tough to turn the public against military expansion but props to them for trying
Ben and Jerry’s can be rehabilitated after the revolution. They can be The People’s Comissariat of Ice Cream. 🍦🚩
“Operation Z Chocolate Fudge Whip” does have certain possibilities.
Why on Earth would people like these choose to get involved in business…? How much more money is there to be made by trying to be the least right‐wing corporation?
Very rarely does it happen, but sometimes I do wonder about the rationality of corporate actors. I’d say 99.9% of the time it all boils down to profit motive, but it seems to me that some multimillionaires actually have souls and may be willing to take financial hits in exchange for supporting human rights. Ben and Jerry’s going out of its way to hire convicted felons is a good example - of course labor = profit, but no one hires felons. So it’s… commendable. Am I calling for critical support for an ice cream manufacturer, now? lol.
Not to excuse their wealth or the innate inequality within capitalism that allowed them to amass such wealth. J.B. Pritzker is another example of the “billionaire with a soul”, or “capitalist with a human face” I think of quite regularly. He’s pushing for policies that seem counterintuitive to his status as a billionaire landlord. He has made almost militaristic statements regarding Illinois’ women right to choose, claiming the Illinois state would protect it by any means necessary. I don’t exactly know how to feel about any of it tbh. I know how I should feel, logically. But I would be lying if I said it didn’t give me goosebumps seeing Pritzker, governor of Illinois, call the U.S. supreme court “dangerous extremists” and threaten them if they try to bring their ideology to Illinois. Idk.
In times of severe economic crisis, you often get conflicts within the ruling class, with certain oligarchs (usually those who feel themselves shut out from the top levels of power) taking positions against the mainstream political hegemony. Trump’s mouthing of anti-war rhetoric, for instance, is to be understood in this way.
