Snuff Capitalism
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Death to capitalism and its murderous states. Writing and analysis on snuff capitalism, democide, and necropolitics. Kill capitalism before it kills us.
ICE is a murder infrastructure. And its resources and practices are still in development. It's a model for snuff capital and it will get worse. liberteouvriere.com/2026/01/19/m...
Murder Infrastructures: Capitalist Eliminationism, Acceleration, and Democide | Jeff Shantz (Canada, 2025)
Capitalism has moved into a stage of open mass culling of the working class—starting with those currently deemed unusable (as workers or consumers). This is a rapidly escalating period of democide—…
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Notes on Palliative Democracy and Snuff Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/deathn0t...
Notes on Palliative Democracy and Snuff Capitalism
The Dead Must Not Disturb the Living
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‘This is modern-day shackling’: Haitian immigrants leave Ohio ICE appointments wearing ankle monitors as TPS ends www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
‘This is modern-day shackling’: Haitian immigrants leave Ohio ICE appointments wearing ankle monitors as TPS ends
As the Trump administration ends Temporary Protected Status, some Haitians in Ohio were given ankle monitors after mandatory ICE check-ins.
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Settler colonial police have always already been military forces. transformativestudies.org/wp-content/u...
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The Myth of State Neutrality socialistproject.ca/2020/02/myth...
The Myth of State Neutrality
Police Violence, Labour, and the Unifor/Co-op Struggle We are taught at a very early age and socialized throughout our lives to respect and obey the rule of law. British Columbia Premier John Horgan r...
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For Centuries, Native Women Have Been Told to ‘Trust the Doctor.’ The Results -- Sterilization, Surveillance and Erasure -- Have Been Disastrous. www.mvskokemedia.com/for-centurie...
For Centuries, Native Women Have Been Told to ‘Trust the Doctor.’ The Results Have Been Disastrous. - MVSKOKE Media
by: Suzette Brewer, The Imprint Editor’s note: Part one of two | This story was originally published by The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth […]
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A study finds that the mental health of Lahaina fire survivors is worsening, especially for children. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/08/02/s...
Study finds Lahaina survivors’ mental health worsening
University of Hawaii researchers with the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study (MauiWES) said Maui is recovering, but insecurity, housing instability, health concerns and weakening social support continue to ...
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On the Criminalization of Dissent: Deconstructing Official Oppression in an Age of Neoliberalism www.academia.edu/5964941/On_t...
On the Criminalization of Dissent: Deconstructing Official Oppression in an Age of Neoliberalism
On the Criminalization of Dissent: Deconstructing Official Oppression in an Age of Neoliberalism
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There can be no compromise with a ruling class that has determined you must die. open.substack.com/pub/deathn0t...
No Compromise with Snuff Capital
We Must Be Severe
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"At least 14 people were killed through Canadian police actions in July 2026. This is among the deadliest months of Canadian police violence recorded since 2015. Twelve people were killed in June 2026." Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in July 2026 mediacoop.ca/node/119365
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Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in July 2026
Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in July 2026
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"The necropolitics of snuff capitalism means it is you or it is capital. You die or capital does. Kill or be killed. The only exchange recognized is an exchange of fire." Snuff Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/deathn0t...
Snuff Capitalism
Accumulation by Dispossession of Life
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Look what just arrived! New issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review! Includes my longer article on ecocide and the dis-ecologies of snuff capitalism.
Notes on Palliative Democracy and Snuff Capitalism The Dead Must Not Disturb the Living open.substack.com/pub/deathn0t...
Notes on Palliative Democracy and Snuff Capitalism
The Dead Must Not Disturb the Living
open.substack.com
Yeah I actually hate ai *and* capitalism. I can do both.
For many Pākehā (European settlers in New Zealand), James Cook was a foundational figure for Aotearoa — an explorer, scientist, hero. For Māori, he was and is “one of the most potent symbols of empire and its bitter and enduring legacies.” e-tangata.co.nz/history/cont...
Contested empire | E-Tangata
“Within Māori framings of the past, Cook has become one of the most potent symbols of empire and its bitter and enduring legacies.” — Historian Tony Ballantyne, author of ‘Captain Cook and the Unsettl...
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Re-thinking revolution: A social anarchist perspective philosophersforchange.org/2012/03/07/r...
Re-thinking revolution: A social anarchist perspective
by Jeff Shantz Superseding archic society requires, in part, a refusal to participate in dominant social relations. Anarchists call for a refusal to surrender people’s collective power to po…
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"Death becomes a crucial policy outcome. The crucial outcome. Murder becomes the essential service."
Capitalist Accelerationism: Accumulation by Death - Jeff Shantz
In the current period capital’s accumulation needs have driven more vicious outcomes. It is no longer enough, from capital’s perspective, to dispossess—accumulation, for capital, requires exterminatio...
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Neither Justice nor Crime (We are all Criminals Now) theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff...
Neither Justice nor Crime
Jeff Shantz Neither Justice nor Crime (We are all Criminals Now) 2014
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Death Cult: "Capitalism has moved into a stage of open mass culling of the working class-starting with those currently deemed unusable (as workers or consumers)." liberteouvriere.com/2026/01/19/culling-the-working-class-acceleration-and-the-period-of-capitalist-democide-jeff-shantz-december2025/
Culling The Working Class: Acceleration and the Period of Capitalist Democide | Jeff Shantz (December,2025)
Capital has lost its patience with keeping unneeded working-class people alive. Notably in the very center of advanced capital and so-called liberal democracies (“the West”). Any and all social pol…
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Intersecting Crises: Intersecting Resistance worldecology.info/intersecting...
Intersecting Crises: Intersecting Resistance
Jeff Shantz || Crisis is a central feature of capitalism. It is rooted in the many contradictions of capitalist systems. The contradictions between collective production and private ownership, forc…
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An anarchy of everyday life philosophersforchange.org/2012/04/10/a...
An anarchy of everyday life
by Jeff Shantz Contemporary anarchism offers a mid-range movement organized somewhere between the levels of everyday life, to which it is closest, and insurrection. Rooted in the former they seek t…
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Far-Right violence against popular working-class movements is constant. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Man charged after allegedly shoving 69-year-old woman at Nantucket ICE protest
The alleged assault occurred during an Indivisible Nantucket vigil and march held in memory of people who died during recent ICE activity.
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