London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.
“Hyper” capitalism is just capitalism at its root without strong government controls. Capitalism leaves larger and larger groups out - that’s how it works. Capitalism is designed to have winners and losers and without socialism to pick up those left out, they are ground under the system to death. The capitalism we’ve all known has always been heavily regulated (even if it’s becoming less regulated). Past capitalism always relied on exploiting the lower classes, immigrants, or slavery. Capitalism working as a self contained system has always been a pipe dream.
Hyper capitalism is an extreme version of capitalism employed by the USA which defies reason concerning subjects such as worker unions and consumer rights etc. Something that several socialist first world countries have while still being capitalist.
My point is that it’s not “hyper” capitalism - it’s just normal capitalism. Capitalism is a bad system that must be tempered by a lot of socialism and government controls to work for society. Hyper capitalism sort of implies it’s an extremist version of that system, but it’s not. In the past, humanity started out using more standard capitalism (what you are calling hyper capitalism) and workers rose up to create unions and pushed governments to create socialist systems to temper the inherent abuses the capitalism. Many people argue pure capitalism will regulate itself through the markets and we don’t need unions and government controls at all. So I think calling what the USA has as “hyper capitalism” implies its somehow an anomaly of that system. I think that misrepresents the inherent societally deductive nature of the capitalist system. Also, I would argue what the USA has leans more towards crony capitalism.