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Man no longer exercises his essence as a species-being in productive labour for the good of others, but on the contrary, he becomes detached from his essence and the product of his labour is abstracted as a means to produce for the sake of capital. In this sense man becomes reduced to nothing but a machine; the more capital the product of his labour acquires, the more the worker will be encouraged to produce through the influence of wages. The appeal of this profit for the worker sustains his alienated state by further sacrificing his ‘body and spirit’ for the sake of his wages;

Material and ideological conditions are present in the modern society and those before, each influencing the other. Material conditions determine an individual’s way of life, the wages they collect, and how such earnings determine social class. It is through ideological conditions that ideas derive, which give birth to the ways civilization behaves and operates. This paper will look at a series of theoretical works by Karl Polanyi, James Rinehart, Max Weber, and Robert Heilbroner, deliberating the market society and its progression in relation to the material and ideological conditions that are constantly transforming throughout societies pivotal points in history. Each theorist offers excellent insight into the modes of production and

In “Capitalism and Freedom,” Milton Friedman claims that a capitalist economy means economic freedom. But capitalism can create monopolies, which own commodities exclusively. A capitalist economic system requires a free market and the absence of government intervention in order to function. We can argue that a capitalist economic system does not necessarily mean individual or economic freedom. Instead, it promotes corruption and inequality.

The meme of capitalism has distracted humans, causing the loss of focus in life. We have failed to resist this meme. Families are no longer closely knit because of the meme of capitalism. Hochschild writes, “So what began as a means to an end-capitalism the means, a good living as the end-has become an end itself” (188). She tries to explain that at first, capitalism was a source of living a good life till the

The concept of commodity fetishism applies both to the perceptions of normal people and people in everyday life and to the formal study of economics. Economists, both then and now study the economy in terms of the movements of money, goods, and prices, which is essentially, the point of view of the corporation. from this point of view, the social dimension of economic life is considered unscientific and unworthy of discussion. Karl Marx argues that this commodity fetishism allows capitalists to carry on with day-to-day affairs of a capitalist mode of production without having to confront the real implications of the system of exploitation on which they depend.

Karl Marx, in the Capital, developed his critique of capitalism by analyzing its characteristics and its development throughout history. The critique contains Marx’s most developed economic analysis and philosophical insight. Although it was written in 1850s, its values still serve an important purpose in the globalized world and maintains extremely relevant in the twenty-first century.

Karl Marx and Max Webber both many had many philosophies of the capitalism and its effects on society. Their ideas helped pave the way and expand on theories of previous sociologists. Both men have a deep insight of socioeconomic class in the origins and development of modern capitalism. This paper will analyze the impact of capitalism on society as perceived by both men and the areas in which they agreed, disagreed, and expanded on the ideas of the other.

“Under capitalist social relations, direct political force is not necessary for the maintenance of economic exploitation: it is sufficient for the state as a force standing above society to guarantee that all members of society behave like owners of private property. However, the state must be a discrete, independent force, since it has to compel all members of society to

Another great achievement made by the modern bourgeoisies has been to liberate the human capacity and drive for development.(Berman P94) This drive is known as the everyday workings and needs of the bourgeoisie economy. Marx praises the bourgeoisie because this class demonstrates the potential of human will. According to Marx and Berman the limits of these accomplishments is the fact that some of the bourgeoisie ideas are not profitable. Despite all of their accomplishments, the bourgeoisie is only worried about making a profit. According to Berman they are the most violently destructive ruling class in history.(Berman P102) The bourgeoisies profit craving mindsets compromises the moral views of society.

One topic subject to never-ending debate that is reviewed, revised, then and disputed among scholars, is the market and the economy. In the book, "The Mind and The Market" by Jerry Muller (2002), he discusses the different viewpoints of scholars about capitalism in the market and the influence society holds on it. This writing is comprised of summaries of several reviews from a variety of authors, which will include their viewpoints, their criticism, and an overall review from Muller 's work. These authors include Brian Fox, Patrick Murray, Charles Tilly, and Fritz Ringer. Each author originates from respected and prestigious journals from different universities, programs, and other education systems. All intellectuals are experts in their field of study with a background in either philosophy, history, or economy, making their viewpoints meaningful, insightful, and relevant. Following the summary of each review will be a comparison and contrasting piece, continuing into an evaluation addressing if they captured the book in an appropriate way. Concluding the essay will have an input of my own personal review of the book. As shown, the reviews vary with their personal opinions regarding the positives and negatives of Muller 's work.

While the capitalistic structure dominates society and isolates power within key institutions, Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard analyze its impact on the individual. This capitalistic society we are engulfed in has altered our norms, perceptions, and beliefs in a manner which primarily benefit society’s upper elite. Industry owners as I will call them, exploit society for capitalistic gains; to increase their bottom line. This obsession with profits and power fuel unethical and immoral behavior by industry owners as they take advantage of the resources the average contributing member of society possesses. One could debate that the resource capitalism exploits to the greatest extent is the freedom of the individual. As capitalism grows

Capitalism is many things. It is a system of opportunity, and advantages; it is a system with the massive potential gains, as well as the possibility of insurmountable losses. From an ethical outlook, capitalism exudes both good and evil simultaneously, this paper does not look to confirm nor deny any of these truths about capitalism. What is important, rather, is that from a progressive standpoint, the demanding nature of the capitalist society’s consumer, in hand with the constant fluctuation

Claudia Rankine is a poet who is good at writing lyric poetry, her book “Citizen: A American Lyric” reveals a tragic fact that even as a powerful developed

Since the eighteenth century, Karl Marx has perhaps been capitalism 's greatest critic. Writing many volumes of texts ranging from the co-authored “The Communist Manifesto” to “Capital: Critique of Political Economy”. This paper, however, will concentrate on one of his lesser known works. In 1844 Marx wrote the “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, this was not published during his lifetime and first appeared in 1927,an astounding forty-four years after his death. The manuscripts themselves explore a wide range of topics, this paper will be looking at Marx’s theory of the “alienation of labour”. For Marx, the product of your labour is you itself. He believed that the product of your labour is “labour itself objectified” as a mere inanimate object. A plate, for example, is not simply a plate, but the labour of the worker objectified into a real and physical object. For Marx, a society under capitalism produces two classes of people; “property owners” (the Bourgeoisie) and the “propertyless” (the Proletariat) and Marx was more concerned with the latter. Marx believed that the Proletariat, under capitalism, had nothing of value to sell other than his labour and due to the fact that the Proletariat does not own what he makes he is thus estranged from his labour, with this ultimately ending in the Proletariat becoming estranged or alienated from himself. This paper will seek to critically examine, analyse and explain this abstract theory using both the source text and

Taking ‘you’ to mean citizens in contemporary society, this essay will argue that the global forces of capitalism have immense powers over the government and the people. These forces transcend the sovereignty of individual nation states through corporations, currency and the stock market, and thus over societies and their people. According to Terrence Ball, power is a “contingently contested concept” (Ball 1993: 556), therefore I will address power in terms of its definitions by Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz in its ‘second dimension’, that of setting the agenda (Bachrach and Baratz 1962). Next, Steven Lukes’ ‘third dimension’, which explains how the power of non-observable conflict alters the wants of those it exercises power over, with this not being in their true interest (Lukes 2005: 25). Subsequently, I will turn the attention to Michel Foucault’s definition of power as a “multiplicity of force relations” (Foucault 1978: 92) and its link with Hannah Arendt’s argument that power is sustained by the masses (Arendt, in Ball 1993: 549). These ideas are not the same but, in terms of capitalism, similarities can be drawn, which suggests not only that capitalism exerts power, but that this power is accepted. I will contest this view under the argument of ‘false consciousness’, first coined by Friedrich Engels (Augoustinos 1999). Collectively, these definitions will provide the foundations for a full analysis of how capitalism has the most power over present-day society.