"Slavery and exploitation were and are an essential built-in part of the Capitalist system"

Great documentary last night on the Beeb, highlighting the uttterly ruthless devastation of the environment in Indonesia visited on the country by that epitome of freedom-of-choice capitalism, "the fashion industry." Not to speak of the drying-up of the Aral Sea so that cotton fields upstream of the lake could be irrigated, to produce all that nice cotton for our togs. Not even those shining virtuous lights of capitalism, Marks and Spencer and Next, would give the journalist an interview. There was no need to guess why not. I could scarcely believe what I was watching.