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    Capitalism, I assert is a domineering worldwide system that has allowed for the cultivation of racism, exploitation and war to exceed through the economic and ideologies of capitalism. The emergence is compassed through relations and mode of production and projected onto the superstructures of politics and constructing mental production for accomplishing the aims of the system. The accomplishment comes at ease through globalisation to expand ideas of labour theory value and division of labour and

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    relations of production that is conducive to capitalistic ideals. This notion remains relevant and potent in today’s society. Remnants of patriarchal relations fundamentally enable the extent of class, exploitation, agency and power that drives this capitalist economy. While man-woman relations are conducive the process of capital accumulation, they are not mutually indispensible. That is, there is no infinite or explicit relationship between labour-wage gender inequality under capitalism. However, it

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    dominant mode of production, and capitalist markets were spreading rapidly. This became especially true in the United States of America, which was heavily influenced by the British in matters of economy. Since capitalism was born in England, the influence of capitalism bled over into America while they were still under British rule (Wolf et al. 2670). However, by 1820, the year that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published, the United States fully adopted the capitalist mode of production, along with

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    them. In some cultures your class could never be escaped in life, you had to wait for your next incarnation, while in other cultures the idea of wealth transcended a life and allowed for growth from one class to another. This is the reality of a capitalist society that was first discussed by Karl Marx in the 19th century. When Karl Marx first penned his shaping works on communism, he assumed that the relationship between workers and capital would always be opposing. While most rejected his overall

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    several sub-operations, each of which is carried out by a different person. There is strong emphasis on the fact that division of labor increases the worker’s skill and efficiency. Smith believed there is a cumulative mechanism that operates in a capitalist system which proceeds in the following sequence of events: division of labor-increase in the size of the markets-increase in productivity of labor: a real cycle of growth. Moving forward, Smith’s contribution to explaining the value of goods, but did

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    A commodity, according to Marx, is an external object that satisfies human wants as a use-value while functioning as an exchange-value that enters into exchange with other commodities (303-304). On one hand, the particular properties of an object, made possible by the particular kind of human labour embodied in it, define the utility of a commodity and hence its use value, which cannot be measured quantitatively due to the incommensurability across the diverse categories of utility. On the other

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    Nature of Capitalist Exploitation ABSTRACT: According to Marx, "at any given epoch of a given society, [there is] a quantity of necessaries [recognized as] the necessaries of life habitually required by the average worker." The variations in the type and amount of goods recognized as necessary for life between different epochs and different societies is due to the different 'physical conditions' and to the different 'degrees of civilization' and 'comfort' prevalent. In advanced capitalist societies

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    commodity, neither more or less than sugar”, because the workers sell their time/ effort to capitalists, for wages in return (Marx 204). To explain further, a commodity can be a form of reification (*regarding something immaterial, as material). In this sense, the items we produce with our labor, is a reification of time. As we see occurring currently with minimum wage jobs, the more time someone sells to a capitalist, the more work they produce. This results in the employee receiving income. This income

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    Means of Criticizing Capitalism and Its Crimes Against Humanity Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" scrutinizes the alienation of labor, the social ideologies and the dehumanizing consequences of the American capitalist society in the 19th century. Bartleby is the main character in the story. The other characters in the story, Ginger Nut, Nippers and Turkey, barely survive their pragmatic enslavement because they have been brainwashed by the ideology of

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    Chapter 4 – Explaining Globalization Scholte briefly examines six differing theoretical approaches to explaining globalization – what are they? What is the central theme of each? Liberalisms Liberalist position globalization is, at the most elementary level, a result of ‘natural’ human desires for economic welfare and political liberty. As such, increased transplanetary connectivity is ultimately derived from human drives to maximize material well-being (through markets) and to exercise basic

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