THESE PAGES HAVE SHOWN HOW CHANGE COMES FROM ECONOMIC EVOLUTION...
And how all aspects of society reinforce the overclass — until the changing economy brings new forces that overwhelms it.
How does that analysis apply to us? Take the ads that hover over megapolises or cover huge walls. Their immediate purpose is to promote a brand, but how they do so suggests much headier goals.
Richard Nahem, Eye Prefer Paris, 2020
Union Square in southern Manhattan, 2025 / Elisabeth Rawson
They promote irrationality...
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| At the Châtelet crossroad in central Paris, June 2022 |
They don't give a reason for buying.
And isolation...
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At the top of the Hotel Lutetia in Paris's elegant 7th district, 2015. |
The figures occasionally have a partner and once in a while a few friends, but usually they are alone.
In a void that implies the absence of everything else.
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At the place d'Italie mall in Paris's 13th district, October 2024 |
Ethnic origins are irrelevant in a world where all are incited to consume.
The omissions emphasized here fit that void. Even saccharine Parisian tourism and the elite-centered view of the past are being taken over:
The 19th-century Opéra
For other ways in which the past is being physically deleted, please click back.
Of all the suppressions we've encountered the most important is erasing collective action, because mass, disciplined, determined opposition with a goal of positive change is the only way to effectively counter globalized capitalists' rule.
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That's why a huge panel on the métro exit near the sports stadium astonishes. It covers a third of the immense wall of that crowds pass when they arrive to watch the soccer matches — and evokes the combat for the eight-hour day.
The métro station is part of the extension of the métro line that connects Orly international airport in the south with the stadium in working-class Saint-Denis in the north. It was built for the 2024 Olympics.
Dark colors evoke that fight...
Bright ones celebrate a victory that improves lives now.
This transformation of public communication comes at a time when protests by everyday people multiply. Take three of those that took place over the weekend of November 29-30, 2025, a date chosen only because that was when I wrote this page:
Activists attend the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in Rome, Saturday, November 29, 2025 (Cecilia Fabiano/ La Presse via AP / zoom
Pro-Palestine demonstrations in Paris, London, Geneva, Lisbon, Dublin, Rome...
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Status Coup News, Saturday, November 29, 2025 / zoom |
Al Jazeera, Sunday November 30, 2025 / zoom
In Manilla, demands that the President resign because of graft.
The immediate reasons for these mobilizations differ, but whether they are aware of it or not, globalized capitalism's destruction connects them.
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| Harald Wolff |
They are a first step to worldwide resistance, which is the only effective way to stop billionaires and soon trillionaires from devastating the planet.
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Understanding how so many aspects of society,
tourism and the view of the past included,
coincide to bring obedience is a weapon in the coming fight.
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| Harald Wolff |
That's why these blooks were written.
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If you find their ideas useful
pass them on.
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