xurkitrree:

hustlerose:

crazy how so many movies and books and stuff have evil corporate villains but criticisms of capitalism are rarely talked about directly. it’s almost like most people have vague anti-capitalist inclinations but don’t want to acknowledge them. 

media like that serves a role in performing our anti-capitalism for us. capitalism cant really actively promote itself as a good system to most people bc most people do hold some degree of unacknowleged anti-capitalist sentiment, so instead it relies on obfuscating itself and directing criticism of it onto individual entities, in this case fictional “evil corporations”. by levying anti-capitalist sentiment onto a fictional body and weaving a narrative that turns anti-capitalist struggle into the feat of an individual, we are assured that the evils of capitalism are the fault and responsibility of errant individuals; a framework that leaves little room for systematic criticism.