The 2026 World Cup Under Capitalism: The Most Expensive World Cup... and the Least Humane

The 2026 World Cup clearly reveals that capitalism is no longer content with turning labor and nature into commodities; it has extended to commodifying sport, culture, and human emotions as well. What was supposed to be an occasion for bringing peoples closer together and promoting values of solidarity and peace has become an arena for expanding the political influence of major powers, maximizing the profits of monopolistic corporations, and entrenching social inequality. Restoring sport's humane role requires freeing it from the logic of maximum profit and the dominance of capital, and returning it to its original function as a social, cultural, and human right that serves peoples, rather than a new means for accumulating wealth and reinforcing class hegemony...