Suffering Capitalism

A variant of capitalism that not only tolerates suffering but actively depends on it to sustain accumulation. Suffering capitalism extracts value from insecurity, illness, debt, addiction, and despair. Private prisons profit from incarceration; pharmaceutical companies profit from chronic conditions; lenders profit from financial desperation; platforms profit from gig workers’ exhaustion. Unlike earlier forms that promised progress and comfort, suffering capitalism offers no exit—it simply makes survival the product. It is capitalism with the mask off: not the invisible hand but the visible fist.

Example: “The for‑profit rehab center had a 90% relapse rate—but that was good for business. Suffering capitalism: healing is not the goal; repeat customers are.”

Suffering Consumerism

Consumerism explicitly organized around alleviating, distracting from, or aestheticizing suffering. Suffering consumerism sells relief from the very anxieties it helps create: sleep aids for the overworked, comfort food for the lonely, retail therapy for the alienated, self‑help books for the exhausted. It also commodifies the spectacle of others’ pain as entertainment (true crime, disaster news) or moral performance (charity merch, awareness bracelets). Suffering consumerism does not end suffering; it repackages it into products that keep the cycle spinning—consumption as temporary anesthetic for a chronic condition.

Example: “She bought a ‘self‑care’ candle, a weighted blanket, and a guided journal—all marketed to ‘anxiety relief.’ Suffering consumerism: selling the cure for a disease the system won’t stop causing.”

Suffering Capitalism by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 21, 2026

Control Capitalism

A phase of capitalism where the primary source of value is not the production of goods but the exercise of control over people, data, and behavior. Control capitalism emerged from surveillance capitalism, algorithmic management, and platform dominance. Its giants are not factories but platforms that orchestrate behavior; its products are not objects but compliance, attention, and prediction. Control capitalism profits from reducing uncertainty—by locking users into ecosystems, by scoring workers, by pre‑empting dissent. It does not need to coerce openly; it nudges, shapes, and steers while leaving the appearance of choice intact. The result is a cage built from algorithms, terms of service, and convenience.

Example: “The app made it easy to order food, harder to cancel, and impossible to talk to a human—control capitalism, where the interface is designed not for your convenience but for your compliance.”

Control Capitalism by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 21, 2026

Thoreauvian Capitalism

A paradoxical label for those who argue that Thoreau’s self‑reliance, hard work, and entrepreneurial spirit (he made pencils) align with free‑market principles. Thoreauvian capitalism celebrates small‑scale, local, artisanal production—the independent farmer, the craftsman, the homesteader—as models of virtuous enterprise. It rejects corporate capitalism, wage labour, and consumerism, calling instead for a world of self‑employed individuals trading surplus goods with neighbours. In practice, it often overlaps with libertarianism and homesteading movements, though Thoreau himself was no fan of commerce.

Example: “He sold handmade furniture online but refused to scale up, hire employees, or advertise—Thoreauvian capitalism: profit, but only enough to buy more seeds and a new axe.”

Thoreauvian Capitalism by Dumu The Void April 21, 2026

Exception Capitalism

The most extreme form of martial capitalism, where capitalism rules everything and everyone with an iron fist, operating in a permanent state of exception—suspending normal legal protections, democratic oversight, and human rights at will. Under exception capitalism, the logic of profit overrides all other values, and any resistance is treated as a threat to be eliminated by whatever means necessary. It is capitalism as a totalitarian system: no strikes, no protests, no unions, no safety nets. Exception capitalism justifies itself through endless crisis (economic, pandemic, climate) to maintain a state of emergency that never ends.

Exception Capitalism Example: “During the lockdown, the company used ‘public safety’ as an excuse to ban all organizing and fire anyone who complained—exception capitalism, turning crisis into a permanent suspension of worker rights.”

Exception Capitalism by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 21, 2026

Police Capitalism

An evolution of surveillance capitalism in which capitalist institutions and their supporters assume the functions of a police force, parallel to—and often overlapping with—nation-state authorities. Under police capitalism, corporations don’t just collect data or shape behavior through algorithms; they actively enforce rules, punish dissent, and discipline labor through private security, platform bans, digital blacklisting, and even collaboration with state police to suppress strikes, boycotts, or union organizing. The goal is to protect capital accumulation, not public safety. Police capitalism creates a dual system: one law for the wealthy and the corporations, and another for everyone else—enforced by private thugs, corporate legal teams, and algorithmically managed precarity.

Example: “When the gig company sent private security to intimidate drivers protesting pay cuts, that wasn’t just aggressive management—it was police capitalism, using corporate muscle to replace public law with private order.”

Police Capitalism by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 21, 2026

Martial Capitalism

An advanced form of police capitalism in which capital operates under a permanent state of martial law—but with corporations holding the guns. Instead of a police state run by government, martial capitalism puts military power directly in service of capitalist interests: private military contractors guard corporate assets, paramilitaries break strikes, and logistics companies operate armed convoys in “high‑risk” zones. The rule of law is replaced by the rule of contracts backed by force. Martial capitalism is what happens when the line between corporation and warlord blurs, and the ultimate argument is not a court ruling but a drone strike.

Example: “The oil company didn’t wait for local police; they deployed a private militia to clear the protest camp. That’s not security—it’s martial capitalism, where capital commands its own army.”

Martial Capitalism by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 21, 2026

Commit a crime against capitalism 

Yes crimes against capitalism exist. However this crime is currently not achievable unless G-d says capitalism can't exist.

Commit a crime against capitalism is committed when normal people go nuts 🙃 and want to replace capitalism with their own liberal woke ideas. Punishment: remove people like Bill Gates and John Kerry from all levers of power.

Commit a crime against capitalism by Uncle Dimma November 26, 2022