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brosen67.bsky.social
@jasonhickel: You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people's basic needs, then what is actually the point?
May 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
krauza.bsky.social
What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction.

There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology.

All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

@jasonhickel
July 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
lucyannarhoades.bsky.social
#JasonHickel
March 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
wagatwe.bsky.social
also, the deal was just about stealing more resources from Africa xcancel.com/jasonhickel/...
@jasonhickel: The US-brokered "peace deal" between the DRC and Rwanda is actually wild. The US is getting access to $2 trillion worth of DRC minerals in exchange for forcing the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 militias. That's one-tenth of the DRC's total mineral wealth, more than any single foreign country claims. This is strange, because analysts of the region have long argued that the US has effectively enabled Rwandan support for the M23 in order to destabilize the DRC, prevent a functional state from arising and achieving sovereignty over its mineral wealth, and thus ensure minerals stay cheaply available for US firms. If this analysis is correct, then the US has just acquired $2 trillion in mineral rights in exchange for stopping a conflict that it has effectively supported. Consider also how the media discourse is playing out. Remember that in 2008 Chinese firms signed a deal with the DRC to obtain $9 billion in minerals in exchange for infrastructure development. Western media went wild with narratives of "Chinese colonization". Now the US has secured a minerals deal 200x larger and the media narrative is all about how the US brings "peace". Analysis from Kambale Musavuli from the Center for Research on Congo-Kinshasa [soundcloud link to Africa Now! podcast]
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
robinince.bsky.social
If you have only read Roy’s fiction , I hugely recommend you read her essays and speeches - she is lightning
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel • • • "So, the whole charade of Western liberal democracy is as much of a corpse under the rubble as the tens of thousands of Palestinians." - Arundhati Roy
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
decolonizemyself.bsky.social
Jason Hickel ✔ @jasonhickel You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people's basic needs, then what is actually the point?
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
cykoore.bsky.social
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland... the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.
February 28, 2026 at 10:23 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not. 11:28 • 1/6/22 249 17 8.2K 27K
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
pauleric70.bsky.social
Under capitalism, no investor will voluntarily walk away from a highly profitable industry like fossil fuels – even if it’s causing ecological breakdown.

This is why solving the climate crisis requires overcoming capitalism.

@JasonHickel on the Better Future Pod:
August 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
this is correct (strap in it’s also long)
tweet from Jason Hickel @jasonhickel All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.
November 7, 2024 at 6:21 AM
mayamedia.bsky.social
We won’t let this story disappear.
seastersjones Bruno Maçães Q @MacaesBruno A journalist at a top newspaper told me "we are waiting for this story to disappear." Journalism in our time: waiting for stories to disappear Jason Hickel @ @jasonhickel We now have video footage alongside systematic evidence that Israeli soldiers gang rape Palestinian captives and there is zero outrage from Western media. I am loosing my mind.
August 7, 2024 at 4:58 PM
brosen67.bsky.social
@jasonhickel: The "economy" is ultimately our material relationship with each other and with the rest of the living world. We have to decide whether we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploitation, or on reciprocity and care.
April 23, 2026 at 7:49 PM
brosen67.bsky.social
@jasonhickel: To get a sense for how unhinged our economy is from the real world, consider the fact that pollinators, earthworms, rainforests, clean air, parenting, friendship, sleep and solidarity are considered to be literally valueness according to our dominant metric of economic success.
July 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org
The Heart of the TARDIS Posted #meme #memes
" * Jason Hickel @ @jasonhickel You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere fails to meet most people's basic needs, then what is actually the point?
September 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM
mayamedia.bsky.social
Only suckers still think we live in a democracy.
Jason Hickel • @jasonhickel If your government is conducting or assisting a genocide, and doing it in the face of overwhelming popular opposition, then you do not live in a democracy. Your ruling class does whatever it wants. This is a core problem and people need to grapple with it.
December 6, 2024 at 9:22 PM
mleroi.bsky.social
x.com/jasonhickel/...
January 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
peninsuladsa.bsky.social
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close. — Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) January 3, 2026
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
insurgentthought.bsky.social
A reminder that US sanctions against Venezuela resulted in 40,000 deaths from 2017 to 2018 alone (@jasonhickel). That’s what Maria Corina Machado supports and that’s why she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
oxfaminternational.bsky.social
Colonialism never really ended—it just took on new, billion-dollar faces.

@jasonhickel joins Nafkote & @maxlawsontin on EQUALS to break down how extreme inequality is built into the system—and what we can do about it.

Listen in: 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WQJ3Lz #TakersNotMakers #FightInequality
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
jasonhickel.bsky.social
This is Morena's first PhD paper. Follow her for more interesting work to come! x.com/morenahanbur...
Morena Hanbury Lemos on X: "✨My first PhD paper with @jasonhickel has just been published in the journal Ecological Economics. You can access the full article here (open access): https://t.co/uYDEDh5G8l https://t.co/SFxFzw3IsI" / X
✨My first PhD paper with @jasonhickel has just been published in the journal Ecological Economics. You can access the full article here (open access): https://t.co/uYDEDh5G8l https://t.co/SFxFzw3IsI
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May 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
grest2.bsky.social
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel (X) To get a sense for how unhinged our economy Is from the real world, consider the fact that pollinators, earthworms, rainforests, clean air, parenting, friendship, sleep and solidarity are considered to be literally valueless according to our dominant metric of economic success.
August 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM