[...] austerity-wracked municipalities increasingly turn to predatory fines and fees to make up for chronic budget shortfalls, which leads to often deadly altercations with police and prison systems for those who cannot pay. All of these examples, for Wang, are mechanisms by which the overarching crisis of capitalism in an age of financialization is displaced through the channels cut by centuries of white supremacy. [...]

a bullyboy paean to "the West" as the seat of progress in an otherwise dark world.

the free market represents the apogee of the Enlightenment

takes as doxa that liberal democratic states are less warlike

Capital expands endlessly and inevitably seeks to bring more and more aspects of the world into its orbit, but it also necessarily produces crises, first nad foremost for its exploited creators, proletarians, whose own reproduction is reduced to the barest minimum, and sometimes less than that. As capital drives competing capitalists to cut costs, workers' wages are cut or fall behind inflation, mechanization introduces less autonomy and greater dangers, the body is abused, social relations are mined, and [...] whole populations are abandoned when their exploitation proves unprofitable.

the passing of trade and sumptuary laws that would cause commodities that were common one day to become scarce the next and vice versa