Death Worlds and Market Deities

The Gospel of the Invisible Hand

Neoliberal Baccanal on the Deathworlds

The Western oligarchic elite drunk in the animist magic of neoliberalism, elevated the market to the status of a god. They demanded prostration to its will, under the threat of war, poverty, destabilisation and ruin. This was no longer a mere economy—it was a cult of market worship, and like all cults it demanded sacrifice.

First it devoured the working classes. Then it turned rapaciously upon the middle classes, where it now feasts. The insatiable market’s hunger, transferring more and more wealth, draining steadily upwards, shifting trillions into the hands of the 1%. Media constantly convinced the public, that this was natural, inevitable, it was in fact progress. If you suffered, it was your fault. If you could not afford to live, then you just did not deserve it.

The latest transfer of wealth in history occurred–through the quiet progress of structural extraction. With progress like this, who needs conquest? The entire society was transformed into marketplaces, by the doctrine of marketisation. Every desire, need and even basic survival itself was commodified. And when the people protested? The glorious market offered deafening silence, for gods do not answer. The economist on BBC and CNN would remind you that you were forever in the safe hands of the market god’s, market forces.

But a system built on structural extraction and suffering cannot endure indefinitely. Neoliberalism promised infinite growth, boundless prosperity, and a shifting utopia—a future always better than the past. And yet, for millions, life became more precarious, more exhausting, more desperate. First came the conman’s promise, then the crushing reality: rising costs, stagnant wages, mounting debt, and the ever-present burden of personal guilt. The utopia became a dystopia.

The people knew something was wrong. But they had no language to describe it in the convoluted doctrine of the market. They had been told to worship the market, to believe in the Invisible Hand. Now, facing collapse, they needed a new faith. And so, they were handed Trump—not as a revolutionary, but as an avatar of America’s decaying empire. He spoke their buried fears, their aspirations, the unbearable weight of their fading importance in the world.

Trump was not an anomaly. He was a reflection—the unconscious self of an empire in decline. He is the ‘collective man’ who speaks what people have been thinking but many have struggled to say. Hitler was also a ‘collective man’.

Hitler seems like the 'double' of a real person, as if he were the "unconscious self of 78 million Germans. He is not an individual; he is a 'collective man,' a mouthpiece of the unconscious will of his people.

— Carl Jung, Interview with H.R. Knickerbocker, 1938

Like Trump, he became the messiah that rescued the Germans from their shame and soul shaking defeat. The man who embodied the German spirit spoke in tune with the German people. ‘I am Germany’ he would say as his voice echoed the collective German unconscious. Make America Great Again! Trump is the deliverer of America on the brink of their soul shaking decline.

And now, another collective shadow takes form. When Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, perhaps it was time to take it seriously. But the reality is far worse than a single gesture. Neoliberalism’s myth has shattered. And in its place, an old doctrine is reborn.

They have been spreading ethno-statism across Europe, weaponising fractal identities, preparing the terrain for what is to come. The mask is slipping. The colonialist ideology of Capitalism has entered its penultimate phase, fascism.

Yes we are back around on the historical merry go round.

Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in another way some of the sky and the trees and the sun, it is still inescapably the same stream, moving.

— Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner

Neoliberal Baccanal Continues

The Neoliberal Religion

The colonial project was so successful in embedding control that it entered its next phase. The exultant bourgeois elite no longer needed direct governance, it was a hindrance to the market, they had developed a more elegant and efficient tool—neoliberalism. The terrain and doctrine had been reshaped.

Government shrank, markets expanded and multiplied and populations were transformed—not into citizens but into mere markets of consumers. This was steroidal capitalism. Which is in reality colonialism on steroids!

The Invisible Hand—once a metaphor revealed itself as a god. Economists preached its wisdom, media sanctified its judgements and politicians bowed in submission. It was an animist superstition so absurd that if scholars mocked it with the same enthusiasm with which they mock primitive magic they would have collapsed into peels of uncontrollable laughter.

The market was no longer an abstraction. It had become a sentient god. It ruled economies. it ruled populations. And it ruled governments.

At home the market produces death worlds in inner city ghettos, exports necropolitical human cargo to prisons to enhance the profits of the prison industrial complex, then it reconfigures these same inner cities with marketised gentrification, displacing the expendable human cargo. As we said last week The plantation never ended.

Abroad Congo, Sudan and Gaza genocide for supply chain and economic gain reveal themselves in live streamed to your mobile phone in HD. In Congo alone millions have been slaughter since the French supported genocide in Rwanda unleashed the overspill of Hutu vs Tutsi ongoing warfare to inflict genocide on the Congo killing millions since the 90’s as NATO allies fought an internal proxy war for supply chain control, again upon the necropolitical category of predominantly black bodies. In Congo no one is counting!

But perhaps it is Gaza which reveals most starkly the necropolitical cynicism at the heart of neoliberal madness. After the U.S. and its European allies: supplied the bombs, ammunition, AI technology, anti-missile defence, air support, intelligence support, propaganda, diplomatic support, brutalised their citizens for anti-genocide protests and ensure non-compliance with international law. Leaving death and infrastructural destruction across Gaza and the West Bank Trump met Netanyahu and revealed the terms of the new Palestine necropolitical discourse,

Trump:I think that Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now. If you look at Gaza, it’s all, I mean, it’s hardly a building standing, and the ones that are, are going to collapse. You can’t live in Gaza right now, and I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy.

Trump:You look over the decades — it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza. And right now, you have in Gaza a very dangerous situation in terms of explosives all over the place, in terms of tunnels that nobody knows who’s in the tunnel. The whole thing is a mess.

Trump: This is a very, very difficult situation, but we’re going to get it solved. I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell. They live like, you’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back — and I believe this strongly — is because they have no alternative. What’s the alternative? Go where? There’s no other alternative. If they had an alternative, they’d much rather not go back to Gaza, and live in a beautiful alternative that’s safe.

Question: Would Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza if they left while the rebuilding was happening?

Trump: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return. Why would they want to return? The place has been hell.

Question: Because it’s their home, sir, why would they leave…?

Trump: It’s been one of the meanest, one of the toughest places on Earth. And right now, it’s, I’ve seen every picture from every angle, better than if I were there. And nobody can live there. You can’t live there.

Trump: So if we can build them, through massive amounts of money, supplied by other people, very rich nations — and they’re willing to supply it — if we can build something for them in one of the countries. And it could be Jordan, it could be Egypt, it could be other countries. And you could build four or five or six areas. It doesn’t have to be one area. But you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die.

Trump: Because Gaza is a guarantee that they’re going to end up dying. The same thing’s going to happen again. It’s happened over and over again, and it’s going to happen again, as sure as you’re standing there, Peter. So, I hope that we could do something where they wouldn’t want to go back. Who would want to go back? They’ve experienced nothing but death and destruction…

— The Times of Israel

This is what necropolitical discourse looks like. Trump proposes the ethnic cleansing of Gaza after the Israelis ran Gaza as an Israeli occupied Death World for decades. Just look at Netanyahu’s smirk and that says it all!

According to Trump Gaza is to become U.S real estate, a market. Gaza is to be an American market and just as the American inner cities are hollowed out with underinvestment, violence and Death World conditions, in order to be acquired on the cheap for gentrification, this is the model he has revealed for Gaza. The script of the entire sordid genocidal business. The Israelis are the category permitted to kill Palestinians undefended and when they defend themselves it is terrorism because they are a category destined to be dispossessed, violently disciplined and to die. And lest we forget the Israeils did for 14 months what the Americans had already done in Fallujah.

It is clear neoliberal domination requires ritual blood sacrifice!

Yeah! Trump should get a Nobel Prize! If Obama could, why shouldn’t he?!!

The Pimp & The Commodified Consumer

Neoliberalism’s greatest trick was not ruling through coercion—but seduction.

It manufactured consumers, not citizens. It replaced civic engagement with shopping. It trained populations to see themselves as brands.

Your body became a product. Your mind, an algorithm. Your soul, a transaction.

Neoliberalism was not just an economic system. It was a pimp—and you, its most willing commodity.

Neoliberalism had mastered psychological control—you became both the enforcer and the exploited. It had evolved into a pimp. Now you could Only Fans yourself for yourself. The control mechanism over you is yourself. Neoliberal was technique embedded deep in your psychology, in the very depths of your psychology.

And no cultural phenomenon speaks this as loudly as reality TV, which swept Trump into the popular public eye. He again is revealed as the avatar of our Zeitgeist.

Neoliberal Baccanal, ‘Just boogie till the trillions drop!’

The Largest Wealth Transfer in History

From the 1970s onward, the bourgeois elite engineered the greatest wealth transfer in human history—not through war, but through privatisation, deregulation, and financial speculation.

Middle classes were hollowed out, social safety nets were shredded, and wealth drained steadily upwards. And all the while, the media assured the public this was "progress."

If you suffered, it was your fault. If you could not afford to live, then you did it was … yes you guessed it! Your fault!

The West’s Superstitious Ruling Class

Drunk on their own myth, the ruling class doubled down on their doctrine, convinced the market-god would save them. They deregulated, looted, speculated, and bailed themselves out—convinced that crises were someone else’s problem.

But they had no strategy—only destruction. No vision—only crisis. No plan—only chaos, war, and more destruction. This is what necropolitics looks like in HD.

The Final Error: NATO & The Ukraine Trap

Their greatest mistake was believing their own neoliberal propaganda. NATO provoked Russia, expecting its economy to collapse under military spending and sanctions. They pushed against red lines, hoping that Putin would take the bait.

And when he did, Russia didn’t collapse. Our economies did! Yes our economies are in collapse!

Now, with no victory, no working effective strategy, and a collapsing of the hegemony of the Western led financial order, Biden decided to use sanctioning China’s silicon chip industry as a means to control chip distribution around the globe, and by this he even launched the sanctioning of allies, this has had the same effect as economic sanctions on Russia, in the coming decade we will see that this is the moment the the U.S. lost its hegemonic dominance of the computing industry also. Deepseek is only the beginning, the West stands on the precipice of a self-inflicted disaster—a catastrophe born not of strength, but of arrogance.

I am reminded of the Greek saying:

Whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, first they make them mad.

— Euripides

Neoliberal Baccanal — The Fascist End

Further Reading

Neoliberalism, Market Worship, and Economic Collapse

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005.

(A definitive account of neoliberalism’s rise, its ideological foundations, and how it reshaped global governance.)

Mirowski, Philip. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown. Verso, 2013.

Explains how neoliberalism reinvents itself after each collapse, always avoiding accountability.

Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–79. Picador, 2008.

Examines neoliberalism as a political and economic rationality rather than just an ideology.

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2014.

A deep dive into wealth accumulation and the rising economic inequality facilitated by neoliberalism.

Streeck, Wolfgang. How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System. Verso, 2016.

Asks whether capitalism has entered its terminal decline, with neoliberalism as its final, extractive phase.

Fascism, Authoritarianism, and the Collective Unconscious

Jung, Carl. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 10: Civilization in Transition. Princeton University Press, 1964.

Discusses Hitler as the unconscious manifestation of Germany’s collective shadow, relevant to Trump’s rise.

Adorno, Theodor. The Authoritarian Personality. Harper & Brothers, 1950.

A seminal text on fascist psychology, showing how capitalist societies breed authoritarianism.

Eco, Umberto. Ur-Fascism. The New York Review of Books, 1995.

Identifies the characteristics of fascism, warning how they re-emerge in different forms.

Stanley, Jason. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House, 2018.

Explains how fascist rhetoric and ethnostatism are used to weaponise identity politics.

Neoliberal Colonialism and Western Hegemony

Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2019.

Explores how capitalism and neoliberalism structure death and expendability through economic and political violence.

Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Shows how racial capitalism emerged as a necessary part of European colonial and economic expansion.

Saul, John Ralston. The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World. Penguin, 2005.

Critiques the illusion of neoliberal globalisation, showing how its contradictions have led to its unraveling.

Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Monthly Review Press, 1971.

A powerful account of how Western capitalism extracts resources and wealth from the Global South.

The Market as a God & the Religious Structure of Capitalism

Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2011.

Argues that debt, rather than barter, was the foundation of economies, drawing comparisons to modern capitalism.

Benjamin, Walter. Capitalism as Religion. 1921.

A short but visionary text arguing that capitalism is a perverse religion, promising redemption through endless consumption.

Sloterdijk, Peter. Critique of Cynical Reason. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Describes how neoliberal capitalism sustains itself by turning cynicism into ideology.

Western Military Failures, NATO, and Geopolitical Decline

Chomsky, Noam. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. Metropolitan Books, 2003.

Explores U.S. imperial overreach and how military interventions serve economic interests.

Mearsheimer, John J. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. W.W. Norton, 2001.

Outlines why U.S. foreign policy is doomed to failure as great powers inevitably clash.

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.

Exposes how U.S. economic policies, debt traps, and regime changes function as economic warfare.

Hubris and the Downfall of Empires

Ferguson, Niall. The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. Basic Books, 2002.

Explores the link between economic power, empire-building, and financial collapse.

Toynbee, Arnold J. A Study of History. Oxford University Press, 1934–61.

Argues that civilisations fall due to internal moral and structural failures, not external conquest.

Polybius. The Histories. 2nd Century BCE.

Describes the cyclical rise and fall of political systems, relevant to modern Western decline.

Tainter, Joseph. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Analyzes how civilisations collapse under the weight of their own contradictions and excess complexity.