Capitalism's violence

The profoundest moments of iniquity are not performed by psychopaths, but by ordinary people as they come to accept the premises of the existing order. 

"Within neoliberalism’s vision of a prosperous global village, what remains unsaid is the desire for homogeneity, an compulsion to remake the ‘Other’ in ‘our’ image, whereby the space of ‘the peculiar’, ‘the exotic’, ‘the bizarre’ is repeatedly (re)produced through the relation of the ban in order to create a world with a single trajectory.

Blaming ‘others’ for neoliberalism’s failures and for its violence consequently becomes a primary mechanism in the articulation of power. 

Although violence is of course fragmented by variations and irregularities as part of its complex and unfolding nature, within the current moment of neoliberalism, violence is all too frequently imbued within the chaotic landscapes of globalized capitalism. In the case of Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Ghandi, and the subsequent anti-Sikh riots, each of these violent moments exists along the timeline of inequalities and violences that coalesced to shake the ground as the neoliberalization of India unfolded."

Neoliberal shock and horror in India's anti-Sikh genocide