The Oligarchy Mordor is in the New Zealand Shire
Giga-yachts at the top. Food banks at the bottom. This isn’t a gap — it’s a system.
Capitalism
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MEDIAWATCH: Drown Damien Venuto and his middle class speculation in an ocean of RocketLab blood
Buy, sell, hold — that’s the conversation. Not what it does. Not who it serves. Just the money.
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Edelman Trust Barometer 2026: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Solution
The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a deeply divided society — but critics say it misdiagnoses the real problem.
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Some of the crimes of capitalism – share market greed and enrichment
From asset management giants like BlackRock and Vanguard to NZ’s privatised power companies, critics argue shareholder profit is driving inequality, energy hardship and economic risk.
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The Liberal Agenda – Professor Wayne Hope: Guest Auckland University Sociology Lecture on the Anthropocene, Global Capitalism & Epochal Crises of Time
I am an enormous fan of Professor Wayne Hope, his book, The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures is a…
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MUST READ: Thinking about Capitalism
While we don’t use the c-word ‘capitalism’ much these days, Winston Peters created a bit of a stir by mentioning it in his coalition announcement speech. And former Green MP Catherine Delahunty, on Backbenchers (television), said that we must address it. These days we sometimes prefer the putative synonym ‘globalisation’ when we want to make an ideological point about the capitalism that many ‘progressives’ see as driving us to economic, social and ecological ruin.
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Capitalism, tax and New Zealand
It was sad reading Stephen Hickson’s defence of capitalism in the Press (25 October 2017). Sad because capitalism has delivered so much outright misery to so much of humanity over the last 300 years that it’s hard to believe anyone could be so blinkered.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Capitalism: symptom or disease?
A Labour led Coalition with the Greens and NZF is a better option to yet another NACT regime, but only because it has promised to roll back marginally some of NACTs reactionary policies. If it succeeds in forming a stable government and delivering on some of these promises, this will generate even more hysteria on the right.
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Grenfell Tower – an Epitaph to Epic Failure
Only when inequality, deregulation, austerity and privatisation are reversed, will justice be done for the Grenfell dead.
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Grenfell Tower a burning symbol of failed free market capitalism and mutilated welfare
Their deaths are a tragedy but it is a tragedy that was written by ideologues and bureaucrats more interested in finding ways to shrug off their obligations than protect the poor.
