# Anti-Capitalist Musings Mapping the collision of class struggle and historical trauma. Interrogating the institutions that fail us and the capital that consumes us. This is a chronicle of the wreckage; do not look away. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Pope Who Almost Names Capitalism](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-pope-who-almost-names-capitalism) _2026-08-19 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ In Magnifica Humanitas, Leo XIV sees monopoly, exploitation and concentrated technological power with unusual clarity. The system that continually produces them remains unnamed. ## [If AI Can Do the Work, Why Are We Still Working?](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/if-ai-can-do-the-work-why-are-we) _2026-08-19 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ If AI can do more of the work, the real question is who gets the time and wealth it frees. ## [Class Politics Is Not Woke 2.0](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/class-politics-is-not-woke-20) _2026-08-18 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Class politics is not Woke 2.0, but some of woke’s worst habits have survived in the online left. ## [The Conspiracy Is the Politics](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-the-politics) _2026-08-17 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Rupert Lowe turned a procurement notice into proof of betrayal. That small leap from fact to hidden intent explains how replacement politics works. ## [When Work Becomes a Moral Test](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/when-work-becomes-a-moral-test) _2026-08-16 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Reform and the Conservatives say Britain’s welfare system is wasting lives. Behind the numbers sits a harder claim: that paid employment is the measure of whether a life is useful. ## [Farage Got His Mandate. Then He Needed an Enemy](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/farage-got-his-mandate-then-he-needed) _2026-08-14 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Clacton gave Nigel Farage what he asked for. More votes than in 2024 and a bigger majority. Somehow he still managed to emerge from victory complaining about the establishment. ## [The Telegraph Wants Its Right Back](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-telegraph-wants-its-right-back) _2026-08-13 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ The British Right is fighting over what comes next, and the Telegraph is trying to decide where the acceptable Right ends. ## [Alex Phillips Wants to Be the Victim and the Fist](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/alex-phillips-wants-to-be-the-victim) _2026-08-11 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Alex Phillips is right about the abuse. She is wrong to pretend she is merely an observer of the Reform-Restore civil war. ## [The Right Is Turning on Itself](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-right-is-turning-on-itself) _2026-08-11 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Farage wants Rupert Lowe held responsible for the people around him. The problem is that the same test can be applied to Reform. ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YWTN8BlRfVTd) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [The Choice Farage Has Forced on Rupert Lowe](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-choice-farage-has-forced-on-rupert) _2026-08-10 · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Reform’s demand that Restore expel Downes has exposed something more important than the argument between two parties. It has shown what part of Restore’s political coalition thinks the party is for.