Netanyahu says he loves capitalism. Believe him.
In Gaza, bombs become contracts, surveillance becomes an industry, and destruction becomes profit. A 2025 UN Special Rapporteur’s report called this an “economy of genocide.” A corporate system connecting weapons manufacturers, technology companies, financial institutions and political power to Palestinian suffering.
So let us add Gaza to the accounting of those killed under capitalist powers.
Anti-communists attribute every famine, execution, war and policy failure beneath a red flag to communism itself. But when capitalist governments bomb foreign populations, impose deprivation or enable mass killing, the deaths suddenly become isolated tragedies with no relationship to the economic order financing them.
That is not equal accounting.
Gaza is being destroyed by a state whose leader openly celebrates capitalism, using weapons supplied by capitalist powers and produced through immensely profitable corporate contracts. Financial institutions sustain the companies involved. Technology firms provide surveillance and military infrastructure. The suffering is real, but so are the revenues.
Capitalism did not create every hatred behind this genocide. But it built the machinery that finances it, supplies it and rewards those who profit from it. If deaths caused or worsened by policy count against communism, then war, famine, colonialism and deprivation carried out under capitalist power must enter capitalism’s ledger too.
You cannot count every body beneath a red flag while burying everyone killed beneath the banner of the market.
And perhaps capitalism… especially in its global, imperial form is one expression of the beast system described in Revelation. I continue to return to this thought…
Revelation does not describe evil only as an individual tyrant. It describes an entire political and economic order. A beast that governs who may buy and sell, kings who surrender themselves to its power, and merchants who grow rich while human lives become merchandise. Revelation 18 even places “human beings sold as slaves” among Babylon’s cargo.
I cannot claim with certainty that capitalism is the Beast. But I cannot ignore the resemblance. A worldwide system that controls access to survival, concentrates wealth among merchants, joins economic power to empire, and turns human bodies into costs, commodities and collateral damage.
The merchants grow rich. The kings protect them. The giants consume everything… first the labor of humanity, and then humanity itself.
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