capitalism as a social systemDiffering approaches to the issue of the beginnings of capitalism imply different conceptualization of what capitalism is. This paper elaborates on the notion of original accumulatio
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Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Das Kapital between 1867 and 1894. In the latter, he expounded the idea that human societies progress through class struggle and that capitalism created internal tensions, which would lead to its own destruction. Nineteenth-century financial panics...
(as both Strauss and Plato did) the "common man" they profess to admire. (Or else they would have putaccountability— the Enlightenment's greatest tool — at the top of their agendas, rather than helping to repress it.) Likewise their eager and frequent willingness to use Plato's "noble...
“I Don’t Like Mondays” was about a mass murder. You would think it was about going to school on Monday or going to work after going, back into the drudgery. And most people did. You talk about the lack of hope, and you warp it in a beautiful petticoat o...
Someone once observed that while Marx was exactly right about capitalism, he was exactly wrong about communism. I’ve always liked that observation. The Punisher says: 02/03/2015 at 8:30 pm Tech Guy, are you exhuming Karl Marx? Gott im Himmel! If you really think that all this garbage...
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That makes you complicit in the dominant discourses, even if you think you reject them, which makes having a conversation with the wrong person tantamount to a sin.” The thought found in all but the last relative clause predated wokism by at least half a century, and would, in my ...
Moreover, given the view today that anyone can be creative, this focus on creativity in urban renewal has only mobilized a brand of capitalism that has legitimized the erosion of support for those who are poor. In other words, when the poor fail to succeed in the creative city, their ...