“[This is] probably the only time in human history that capitalism is so not only globally dominant but so deeply entrenched in shaping who we are, in the very fibers of how we think about who we are, our gender, our sex, it commodifies everything … Capitalism seems to have become triumphant in a way where its almost hard to see what would be beyond it. And in a way that’s created this sense of possibility for people to have a sense of shared suffering under capitalism … Capitalism so structures how we feel about the world that it does feel wrong to most people now.”
— Cindy Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, talking about the complexity of individuals being drawn to the Occupy Movement because of feelings and intuitions vs. distinct political motivations. This was during a talk on “Occupy and Anarchism” at the Lucy Parsons Center in Jamaica Plain last week; I posted a quick recap on ThePhoenix.com.
