There are many mainstream products that are strongly against capitalism. Lots of famous pop-stars, rock bands and other people from music industry coin this anti-capitalistic rhetoric. For example Serj Tankian from System of a Down and his solo project has released many songs with the narrative “Mother nature versus capitalism!” and so on.

There are also TV Shows like Mr. Robot that seem to be against capitalism, establishment, consummerism, bank-system, the corporate environment and so on.

Lots of people love The Fight Club because this Palahniuk book is strongly against consumerism. The favorite quote from the book is. “You just work at job that you hate, to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.”

Of course, it’s funny, because these products are actually an example pure capitalism. It’s just the supply and demand system. People demand products that hate capitalism, like anti-capitalistic songs, TV Shows, books and so on, and the market responds to their demand by providing such products.

Oh, and don’t forget about Rage Against The Machine.

So the whole hating-capitalism process is very ironic, indeed, because it actually proves that capitalism really works.

I understand because partially all these anti-capitalistic works are not completely wrong. They actually can point to many real issues we have in our society today (but I don’t think it’s because of capitalism…)

However these products are more than that. They make you feel special. They make you feel like a rebel. Someone who is not a sheep, but you go against the flow. Alone, but proudly. Your eyes are open and you see the world as it really is, without the lies. You know you can’t buy happiness in Wallmart.

Recently I met a friend and he told me about some TV show that is about food we eat. They do many tests and results are really shocking. We eat junk! Fast-foods are full of poison. If you will eat that, you get an heart-attack.

“See!?” he said. “Capitalism is evil. McDonald’s is evil for selling you such unhealthy food!”

And I realized the TV Show he was talking about is actually a capitalitic product. My friend demands something that is shocking, emotional and tells him the awful truth about fast-foods and BOOM, he gets the shock-value TV Show about that.

So next time you meet someone who hates capitalism because he listens to Rise Against, tell him the mainstream punk-rock band is also capitalism.

(Oh, and don’t get me wrong I think Rise Against and Serj Tankian are good musicians – I just disagree with their opinions. BackWordz is better though :))