Capitalism a Ransom Note Poster
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- Printed on poster paper. Extremely versatile, making it perfect for reproducing both artwork and photographs
- Custom sizes, based on artwork dimensions. Check size chart if self-framing
- Dimensions include a 1 - 2 inch (2.5 - 5.0cm) white border to assist in framing
- Shipped in protective packaging
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Capitalism a Ransom Note
This is not a typo. This is a wanted poster.
"€aPita£i$m" is a ransom note made of international blood money, assembled from the currencies of empires and stitched together with the greed that built them. The rainbow "international" is not pride; it is the full spectrum of extraction. The blood-red drip under "blood" is not decoration; it is documentation. The typewriter text beneath is the quiet, furious thesis statement: this system has been holding the world hostage since 1599.
Why 1599? Because that is the year before the East India Company got its charter. That is when the ransom note got its letterhead. One year before the first true mega-corporation was armed with a private army, granted monopoly power, and sent to extract wealth from every corner of the globe in the name of shareholders who never had to see the blood. From enclosure to colonialism, from industrial slaughter to modern austerity, the logic has not changed. Only the font has.
This design is for everyone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. For the ones who see the red line under "blood" and understand it is the only honest accounting this system has ever done. Wear it to a protest, wear it to a coffee shop, wear it somewhere that needs a reminder that 1599 was not the beginning of history; it was the beginning of the hostage situation.
Capitalism is bad. It has been bad since 1599. And it is time to end the ransom.
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