Friday 3 March 2017

belief system: capitalism as a belief system

As we have red from my previous post,capitalism is another type of belief system which i would like to deliberate on this post,,capitalism which we all know has to do with ownership of the means of production of goods and services by a sole entity,its also a situation were by some individuals are in control of the majority of the scares resources which are often used for production activities. having gotten an understanding of what these means,we can deduce that its all a form of sole enterprise and management ventures were people are obliged to work and own an entity that they could call their own.interestingly also there are things we can often found in it universe,things like material and social resources.their world is built around such two vices. most importantly also there are two major categories of people we often see in this same universe.
 below are some diagram and images i was able to extract from some of it sources.
diagram source from www.philosophers forchange.org

diagram source from www.newleftreview.org 
1. those who control productive resources: few people are often found in this class,they control the means of social,political and economic activities of the capitalist universe majorly it could be as a result of inheriting such wealth or they acquired it through hard work which could be through decent way or it could also be the other way round which are not legal.they are likewise tagged as the holders of the economic power because who ever is in control of this is un arguable the controller of the productive activities of a nation,they have the powers to protect them self,further their interest and deprive others from accessing most of this useful resources because they are in control
2.while it is also made up of those that doesn't have:these are people with little,limited or no access to productive resources whom are often the majority of the population in a particular place and are deprive of such resources because of it being under the control of the minority . such people are often known as the workers,the peasant e.t.c . they are left in dire mercy at times,they are usually bullied and left to suffer in poverty. thus having discussed about the various group of people living side by side in this capitalist environment,we would also discover that as a result of all this fracas and continue marginalization and deprivation of the majority by few dominant minority who are in charge of these resources,as such continues there are bond to be conflict,such conflict may include ethnic strive,marginalization,inequality and exploitation. such conflict often arises as a result of perceived deprivation and when such groups perceives that they are not only deprived but oppressed they tend to form a group which 'Karl Marx' one of the fathers of capitalist society calls it class for itself,and when they recognize that they are being oppressed by a group they further metamorphose into class for themselves and later on when they start fighting because with those that are oppressing them it will now be seen as class struggle(the antagonist fighting the perceived protagonist) further down th e line ,when such class struggles continues and without no resourceful mediation by a third part or likewise a tangible agreement by two parties as regards to a stop to such conflict it would now become a revolution(a situation were by the parties on ground are removed and being subsequently replaced by a new party). this are all the make up of a capitalist society..

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