Race, Capital, and Minneapolis

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

As George Floyd calls out for his mother, we see a crisis of overproduction. This brutal murder by the state can tell us something, not about Floyd himself, who every political actor co-opts for their own agenda, and thus murders an innocent man all over again, but rather about capitalism.

For the right, Floyd is a criminal and deserves to be killed. Candace Owens, herself a victim of a hate crime, led the charge. And yet, where was the principled response?