We Don't Agree on Capitalism
n essay I cite often from [wedontagree.net](https://wedontagree.net). [We Don't Agree on Capitalism: Demarcating the Red and Black](https://wedontagree.net/essays/we-dont-agree-on-capitalism-essay/) The essay contains two parts. Historical background in **Not A Good Century For Thinking** is followed by **A Long Overdue and Distinctly Anarchist Assessment of Capitalism**. The latter section goes on to describe a critique of capitalism that goes beyond the Marxist focus on economics, focusing on power dynamics, information flow, and control within groups and organizations. > One thing that I wish more people grasped about Anarchists is that we don’t just think domination results in bad outcomes for the person being dominated, but that it frequently results in subpar outcomes *for the person who has power over the other.* > Capitalists naturally pursue technology in a manner that reinforces power because it’s how they make workers easier to direct and control which does unlock certain economies of scale and also allows them to drive down wages. > From the perspective of society broadly this is both inefficient and costly in the form of various negative externalities. > But this is kinda the point. Because what the broader capitalist system is optimizing for is *control* and then *efficiency*. Some semi-related essays that would be good to pull in and link here are [Aurora Apolito's essay on Cybernetic Communism](https://c4ss.org/content/52970) and [William Gillis on Centrifugal Tendencies in Information & Wealth](https://c4ss.org/content/53185)
