The Crackpot Podcast features James LaFond, leader of the Neanderthal Right, and Lynn Lockhart, Latinx anti-feminist reactionary.
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Once again, you will be required to scroll past a screed of mine which had been in drafts for months.
Arbeit Macht Frei
Some time ago, James and I discussed Cracker-Boy, his major Plantation America work. I mentioned the clothing line Carcel, which is the Spanish word for jail. Carcel is a clothing company founded by two Danish women to exploit captive labor forces located near the production of luxury materials, alpaca wool in Peru, and silk in Thailand. I mined their website to explore the spiritual connection to Plantation America, the worship of capital, and the unfree working conditions that have never left us. The large font texts below are direct quotes from the website.
Labor Inputs vs Material Inputs
Broadly speaking, any manufacturing process will have two major costs, the materials and the labor. Carcel is predicated on providing luxury goods with absolutely no compromise on the natural fibers that form the material input of their final product.
The manufacturing process for knits favors conserving materials and uses more labor, plus smaller, cheaper machines. How convenient that the labor is virtually free, that is to say, unfree.
One webpage boasts that their designs are made "fully fashioned." That means that every piece in the pattern for a garment is knitted separately, rather than cut by machine from a large bolt of cloth. This manufacturing process is more labor intensive, but if done with skill, results in a higher quality finished product, and so you begin to understand the appeal of unfree labor.
They boast about the premium alpaca wool and the sustainability of grazing alpaca in the Andes, as though these were things they came up with, rather than the technology of the natives of this marginal landscape, who have a history of slavery and subjugation reaching back way before Columbus.
By starting in Peru we are situated in a country where
the poverty-related crime rate for women is at it’s
worst to date.
Hmm, what could be causing this increase in poverty related crime? Why, the drug trade of course!
Rocio didn't know she was dating a pimp and got busted in a human trafficking violation.
she has been the link between me and the girls
knitting all our amazing styles
When they all go back to work Fanny, our little hand knitting machine,
approaches me with a ton of questions. Like all the girls, she is eager
to hear how the world is responding to the products that they have
spent hours and hours on giving love and care.
approaches me with a ton of questions. Like all the girls, she is eager
to hear how the world is responding to the products that they have
spent hours and hours on giving love and care.
Various family groups are featured modeling the clothing. It's unclear how they are related to the company but clearly they are not imprisoned. The clothing featured retains a prison aesthetic. Drab colors and simple shapes, no embellishments such as beading or embroidery, no pleats or folds to waste material. This is Nordic austerity in fashion form.
Above is Eleuteria, it was her story that made me lose my cool on the podcast. She left her husband and made some money in the drug trade, in Peru, that has to mean cocaine, right? The party drug of wealthy Americans and Europeans.
These bitches actually call out factories for poor labor conditions!
Factories then have to compromise on labour wages, hours and safety.
The women we work with have been imprisoned as a direct result of their poverty. Women arrested in Peru are often young, single mothers without an education who commit non-violent crimes in order to provide for their families.
The Puritan link between a person's industrial output and their intrinsic value is present. An unmonetized life is no life at all.
Their craftsmanship becomes a piece of their identity. They learn to no longer define themselves by their past actions but instead by the hard work that they put into cultivating a better future for themselves and their families.
In fairness, these girls aren't into paying their Danish workers either, in an ad for a photographer:
These bitches actually call out factories for poor labor conditions!
Factories then have to compromise on labour wages, hours and safety.
The women we work with have been imprisoned as a direct result of their poverty. Women arrested in Peru are often young, single mothers without an education who commit non-violent crimes in order to provide for their families.
The Puritan link between a person's industrial output and their intrinsic value is present. An unmonetized life is no life at all.
Their craftsmanship becomes a piece of their identity. They learn to no longer define themselves by their past actions but instead by the hard work that they put into cultivating a better future for themselves and their families.
In fairness, these girls aren't into paying their Danish workers either, in an ad for a photographer:
The position is unpaid but we promise a steep learning curve and a lot of responsibility that will help you grow your career. We would love to have you full-time, start date is flexible and we would love you to stay with us for a minimum period of 4 months, preferably longer.
Please note that if you're at experienced or senior level and still want to take part in this adventure, we're delighted to hear from you as well.
From the write-up on the Thai prison workers, some Asian stereotypes confirmed:
They don’t work with unclear instructions and they expect measurements on the nanometer. We’ve quickly gotten to know all of the women and they’ve shared their stories with us.
A woman in the Thai prison, One, has been sentenced to life in prison for trafficking methamphetamine but the blog post oddly mentions her preparation for life after prison.
Another Thai woman, Mem, is intelligent and savvy and serves as the manager and interpreter.
To us, they are employees in our company rather than prisoners.
I am no marxist, but the experiment in globalized capitalism has been a disaster on all levels except the availability of inexpensive electronics and calories. All I can say is that I favor localism not globalism, authority and protection of subjects as requirements of governance. Who is responsible for the welfare of these women? Whoever it is has failed. In any case, the incentive structure of prison labor is unacceptable.
Audio:
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YouTube:
0:03:00 South Africa update
0:06:30 Child slavery
0:14:15 Sarah's upbringing
0:18:40 Sarah's grandmother
0:33:35 Benjamin Franklin
0:34:40 What Sarah likes about America
0:44:00 Migrant crisis
1:00:50 Russians
1:21:30 Diamond & Silk
1:26:10 Freddie Gray & military rule
(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart
