Ana Luisa Arocena

Ahora soy una tecnosierva, otro día escribo mi biografía, preciso tiempo, llevo 67 años y pico armándola...sigo emprendiendo, amando, danzando, conversando...

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@Mo7ammed_jawad6 🙏🏼

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@SizweLo Muy interesante y pertinente!

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"La ONU concluye que Israel ha cometido asesinato selectivo contra niños palestino, ha torturado, maltratado y abusado sexualmente de niños palestinos. Ha destruido orfanatos, escuelas e infraestructura infantil. Israel ha cometido crímenes de lesa humanidad".

La ONU acusó hoy oficialmente a "Israel" de crímenes de lesa humanidad contra los niños palestinos, asegurando que tienen multitud de pruebas de que los sionistas han matado de manera sistemática y selectiva a niños en Palestina, incluso afirma que han torturado y violado a niños.

Este informe debería ser portada de todos los medios de comunicación y motivo suficiente para arrestar de manera inminente a Netanyahu y disolver el apartheid sionista en Palestina.

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@Mimiiben1 5

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

Lo anularon ...

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

Gol de Irán... desde muchos POV

[Selva Andreoli @SelvaAndreoli]

Bravo Lula👏👏👏

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@TelemundoUY No se entiende en qué lugar del mundo fue el bombardeo

[H @hernan_sr]

GENIAL MICHELLE BACHELET

“No debería decir esto, pero lo voy a decir porque realmente lo creo. Si alguien me veta porque creo en la democracia, porque creo en el multilateralismo, porque creo en los derechos de las mujeres, porque creo en los derechos humanos, me sentiré honrada.”

[Javier Echeverría @JEcheverriZ]

“El «Gran Evento Inmobiliario Israelí» se celebrará este domingo en Londres.

Este vergonzoso evento implicará la venta de tierras robadas a palestinos en asentamientos israelíes ilegales.

Hoy, pedí al Gobierno que prohibiera este evento.”

Starmer es un sionista recalcitrante. Uno de los peores.

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@TelemundoUY Cruel

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@TelemundoUY Igual de histórico que en Uruguay tenemos por primera vez una catedráticA de ginecología

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@MuntherIsaac @iglesialuterana

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@solsticia_uy Estamos al mismo nivel que el Vaticano, que por primera vez nombraron a una mujer laica a un dicasterio, el de la comunicación. Vamos bien

[Biazita Gomes @BiazitaGomes]

Eu acho incrível como o Irã consegue sempre pegar o time certo das questões.
Brasil sendo novamente sancionado pelos EUA e eles postam isso

[milesdeciudades @milesdeciudades]

Mientras @CiudadAbiertaUY hacía la mismísima ciencia urbana en 18 de julio. Nosotros colaboramos con la difusión!!
Y recuerden: no hay soluciones neutras, cada intervención construye una forma de ciudad posible y deja otras afuera.
Miércoles 3 de junio - 18 h.
Espacio Colabora

[Manuela @ManuelaDavila]

Só a luta muda a vida! Após pressão popular, a Câmara aprovou o fim da escala 6x1, sem redução do salário, com um placar de 472 a 22. Pelo texto aprovado, 60 dias após a promulgação da nova emenda constitucional, a jornada semanal no país passará para 42 horas, já com dois dias de repouso remunerado por semana, um deles, preferencialmente, no domingo. Após 12 meses, a nova carga máxima de trabalho por semana no Brasil será definitivamente de 40 horas. Historico!

[Ana Luisa Arocena @AlasAluisa]

@DiegoAboal2 Uruguay no colonizó a nadie. Israel colonizó con usurpación de recursos materiales y humanos. No veo que se esté considerando ese factor.

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Aprendamos a ser ricos de otra manera: más atentos a las relaciones, más comprometidos con el bien común, más apegados a nuestro territorio, más agradecidos a la hora de acoger e integrar a quienes vienen a vivir con nosotros.