That’s interesting, I would say it’s several orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
I guess the answer must lie in the middle - capitalism is only a few orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
Capitalism replaces direct, personal exploitation with indirect, impersonal exploitation. It transfers all wrongs into an abstract structural logic. It is at once the most obfuscated and difficult to understand, yet the most efficient at supporting a non working minority class at the expense of everyone else.
The only way out of this is to organize a society upon non-exploitative relations of production. A non-vile system of government can only result from that real basis, not the other way around.
That’s interesting, I would say it’s several orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
I guess the answer must lie in the middle - capitalism is only a few orders of magnitude more vile and destructive than any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with.
Capitalism is more vile than autocracy? Than dictatorship? Than absolute monarchy?
Capitalism replaces direct, personal exploitation with indirect, impersonal exploitation. It transfers all wrongs into an abstract structural logic. It is at once the most obfuscated and difficult to understand, yet the most efficient at supporting a non working minority class at the expense of everyone else.
The only way out of this is to organize a society upon non-exploitative relations of production. A non-vile system of government can only result from that real basis, not the other way around.