CAPITALISM AND DESIRE

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders?but not becau se of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, bu t at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us a fter the...[Read more]