The Cancer Stage of Economic Parasitism, 2

The “cancer stage of capitalism”, the idea of associating the concept of tumour to capitalism is already spreading, and with good reason, as you’re going to see. This is a step in the right direction that must be first prevented from being dumbed down, and then, quite to the contrary, further sharpened and boosted. To this aim, some preliminary calibrations are appropriate.
Both the terms “cancer” and “capitalism” are somewhat “charged”, and power surges are detrimental to the accuracy of our diagnostic tools, so let’s release any possible tension from the lines, first.
The term “cancer” is emotionally charged because life is at stake, the term “capitalism” is ideologically charged because it has been used factiously. Both the terms here are to be intended quite literally, in their strict, objective, technical, nearly mechanical sense, placed across all such charges. Cancer as the harmful or even lethal mutiny and misalignment of some parts to the whole, capitalism as profiting by handling means of credit, payment and exchange rather than work and production of survival factors, and the disused but precise term plutocracy as the rule by the ensuing power.

I previously drew your attention to two common denominators of life: the mission to survive and that survival is attained by production and exchange of survival factors. Well, with regard to the second, there’s an exception to the rule: the parasite.
The parasite lives in an out exchange condition – getting something for nothing – and that is its common denominator, that is what defines a parasite in every field the term is used. One may say that the figurative and the literal sense of a word have seldom been that close.

But what we face, both as individuals and as a society, is not just global parasitism. It's global cancer. The common feature is that it's always a suppressive burden; the difference lies in the higher slope of the suppression curve leading us through hell and to death.