05-23-2013, 05:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2013, 06:04 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(05-23-2013, 03:21 PM)shoju Wrote: No, I understand how capitalism works.
Sorry man, but you very, very clearly do not. I'm not saying this to troll or be an ass, I'm saying it because it's the truth. Putting all sarcasm and juvenile pictures aside, I'll explain to you why in the most civil way I can.
The reason is, you view the system like most people do as it is presented to them by the mainstream. You see it as merely as a playing field for autonomous individuals to come in and make "rational" choices - and to an extent, this is true. At the individual level, it is very easy to see it this way, because that is how it presents itself. But it's only a half truth man. In the big picture, it is much more than this - it is an entire system of social relations (contradictory ones). It doesn't exist in a vacuum or as an abstract system of random, material properties that remain static over space and time. It is a system of totality, in which everything and everyone in it interact accordingly - thus all of society (everything from our behavior and thoughts, all the way to our culture and institutions) is shaped around it, as it is required to be (governed by a certain set of 'laws of motion). To view it as random, abstract entities is to miss the forest through the trees, and this leads to a incomplete and faulty understanding of the system and its processes. Thus the political and social problems in the world are not random and abstract, they symptoms of a much larger and more complex problem (the prevailing social order and its corresponding processes). The only way to truly understand the big picture of it, is to understand it by thinking and viewing it in a dialectical way, the most developed form of critical thinking. Such a way of thinking is not only important in the social sciences, but really in the biological and physical sciences as well. Hopefully this makes sense.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)