Mohan Dutta: Culture-Centered Approach

Authoritarian capitalism, the collection of authoritarian techniques of consolidating power and control in the hands of the ruling class in order to serve the hegemonic interests of capital, is in its basic character bad for human health and wellbeing (one certainly does not need a pandemic to support this claim empirically, more on this in a later blog post). Paradoxically, authoritarian capitalism is often sold by the ruling global capitalist class as the epitome of efficient and clean governance. Transnational media, driven by the ideology of profiteering and owned by the transnational capitalists heavily invested in the ongoing expansion of the reach of global capital, hold up authoritarian capital as the mecca of good governance. Transnational organizations such as the various arms of the United Nations (UN, from World Bank to World Health Organization), having been thoroughly co-opted into the infrastructures of global capital over the last three decades, prop up exemplars of au