Cracked Mag a pretty good resource....

[RadioRaheem84]

From what I've been reading in their science section, it paints a pretty damning picture of capitalism and the same for their history and sections on corporate propaganda. I mean literally nothing is safe from the system just completely distorting the natural process in which things are done. From ammonia in your burgers to the how we do not even sit right according to cultural norms fashioned off the office model for business. I mean it's a great resource from which to start further diving into anti-capitalism.

But even after all that, why are many of the staff writers anti-communist reactionaries and libertarians? Is it just hipper these days to think that this isn't capitalism but a crony version or "corporatism"?

Some of the articles are straight up BS but most of them have been quite enlightening.

[Riveraxis]

"Is it just hipper these days to think that this isn't capitalism but a crony version or "corporatism"?"

I believe that is exactly the case. There is some truth behind the matter. This is not "free market capitalism", it is "state capitalism".

The disconnect is that people do not realize that free-market capitalism will lead to "crony corporatism" or whatever you want to call it. 100% of the time.

Anyway yeah, I think cracked is a pretty good source. If anything many of their articles are very entertaining from a non-political point of view.

[homegrown terror]

cracked is always a great read, i check it every day. i like the fact that, underneath the humour, they actually research their articles.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Although some of the claims & facts in Cracked articles are, how shall we say, "questionable".

[Jimmie Higgins]

But even after all that, why are many of the staff writers anti-communist reactionaries and libertarians? Is it just hipper these days to think that this isn't capitalism but a crony version or "corporatism"?Because they are upwardly moble. They are cultivating their skills and networking abilities to make a career. This fits in nicely with general libertarian perspectives: develop your own talent and get rewarded by it. Jon Steward responds to charges of "liberal bias" by saying his writing staff is generally "libertarian in orientation" by which I assume he means socially liberal but economically neoliberal... post Keynsian liberalism... not Libertarian Party style libertarians. They work and get mobility or a sense of self-worth and satisfaction from that work - they also probably devote a lot of technically unpaid time doing "what they dream of" and so it makes sense from their perspective that they think "anyone" with the "will" can do the same and that they see governmnet taxes as mearly parasitic and restrictions on personal expression (the other way beyond careers that the petite bourgois develop a sense of "self-worth") restrictive.