The Dogma of the Cancer Cell

Every oligarch is a tumour growing at the expense of surrounding healthy tissue: the humans and other organisms making up the ecosystem. While normal cells follow a strict path of growth for only a set number of generations, tumour cells never stop multiplying, hoarding resources in the process. This is why capitalism is inherently carcinogenic: in order to pursue perpetual growth, it has no choice but to hate human rights and hate nature’s rights. Capitalism is not an economic system but a dogma of hate. If economic growth is the outcome of white supremacy and colonialism, then hate is the ideological DNA that prescribes it.

Of course, those of us who ride high on the benefits of collaborating with the tumour cannot see what is coming up behind the growth wave: the tsunami of riches that the West enjoyed for decades in the post-industrial era is only a precursor to the sewage deluge that comes right after it: a vomitus of pollution, climate change, and the blood of countless genocides that were feeding the tumour all this time. Citizens of western nations were the beneficiaries of colonialist and genocidal regimes that espoused the dogma of economic cancer and showered their citizens with the rich pickings from their conquests.

But every tumour eventually becomes too large for its own good. So large that, it begins to feed on its own allies, accomplices, and collaborators. On its own citizens. Late-stage capitalism is no different than stage IV cancer: the disease begins to self-destruct as it finds that it has nowhere left to spread. The limits to growth have been reached.

The tumour of capitalism always thinks it can engineer, build, and grow its way out of its problems. But the problem has all along been capitalism itself. No tumour ever grew itself out of its predicament, and the same oncology principle applies to all human economies that are based on inequality, ecocide, slavery and the destruction of a planet’s living conditions.

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