Vampire Capitalism at Work

Blood Money

US has World Dominance in Blood Plasma.

“Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” (Karl Marx)¹

The government and Big Pharma are using people like oil wells!

They are bleeding working people dry to make big money for Big Pharma. They are using our blood to make blood plasma and then selling it to the rest of the world.

The Business of Blood: An Industry that Exploits the Poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOXCrwX1QZ8

US has World Dominance in Blood Plasma.

They tell us that selling blood is a necessary social good and a victory for US capitalism. The US has less than 5% of the world’s population but contributes 70% of the global plasma supply. Roughly 10 million Americans—a small fraction of the U.S. population— are forced and/or lured into selling blood.²

China, for example, imports most of its blood supply from the U.S., a “strategic vulnerability” for China that the U.S. government threatens to exploit.³ This threat undermines the right for workers everywhere to access healthcare and to enjoy a healthy life. An injury to one is an injury to all!

The global plasma monopoly made over $30 billion in 2025.⁴

The U.S. government supports this industry by constantly cutting off public support for poor people. This forces people to donate blood to centers that are deliberately placed in poor communities. Without governmental support, the industry wouldn’t even exist! This is silent fascism!

The blood plasma monopoly is just one example of how capitalism normalizes all forms of exploitation in American society, commodifying every aspect of our lives and putting a price tag on it.

War abroad always results in war at home, just as genocide abroad always results in genocide at home. We do not have to accept a system that enriches itself by preying on our children with AI, that extracts our labor for private profit, and that now employs fascism to maintain its power.

Our entire country is debating whether government should serve people or private profits.

The Democratic party tells us that they will fix everything, but their complicity and cooperation with Trump has brought us to this crisis. The fight against fascism will not be over after the November elections.

The fight against fascism is a fight for basic human needs for all, for democracy and cooperation, for the control of government by the people, and for the future of humanity and the planet.

By taking the offensive to defeat fascism, the working class can pass over to the offensive against capitalism and private property, the seedbed of fascism.

Foodnotes

1. Karl Marx, Capital Volume 1, Chapter X, Section 1
2. https://chinaacademy.substack.com/p/sure-the-us-can-choke-china.
3. https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/23/china/china-us-human-albumin-plasma-intl-hnk
4. https://business.cornell.edu/centers/2025/05/30/the-global-plasma-economy/