Zapatista_Revolucion
18th February 2006, 21:44
I wasn't sure quite whether to post this here or in Opposing Ideologies so please forgive me if it's in the wrong forum.
Capitalism is widely regarded as, the only economic system that works, you yourselves are i'm sure made aware that Communism is "against human nature and will never work." Not only are politicians in conspiracy with the education system to sweep over the brutal acts of capitalist society today, they also hide from us the brutality of implementation of this system, we are told it was a natural progression from fuedalism to capitalism, that it was a joyous ocasion that would set the stage for a prosperous society the likes of which have never before been apparent. Lies.
It was as early as the late 1500's that capitalism first reared it's ugly head, in a time of fuedal society whereby the Peasants were allowed a section of the Lord's estate to work n how they wished to an extent, we must not pretty this over as anything less than the despotic elite ruling over the Peasants however to an extent they were allowed free roam to create self sufficient societies without being under direct rule of their master, they were of course bound to remain there and provide a cut of profits to the Lord, yet he did not in anyway own their labour. Serfdom as it is now known,, was hardly a fair system, it had it's injustices, but what was to follow would by comparison be far more brutal.
Capitalism was originally implemented in England, whilst the word was rapidly becoming industrial led, the new batch of landowners began to devise a new legal system, one which would bind the Peasants to them, creating a workforce that could propel the country to become a superpower of types, to do this they needed a workforce that would enter the factories each day and work for little wage, but how? What Peasant would give up his more prosperous life under serfdom, to work for what Marx later described as 'Wage Labour'?
The capitalists knew that to get workers into the factories they would have to stop them being able to work for their own profit, and so they set out to own the only means of production, they privatized land left right and center, forcibly in many cases removing the Peasants from the land, offering them money should they work in the factores, money with which the Peasants could buy back land to shelter in.
Over the next few centuries, these "Enclosure tactics" became more common until much of England was under the grip of this new system, by the 16 and 1700's when the world was gripped by industrialization, all former Peasants were finally bound to capitalism and the wage labour scheme.
This system was by all means succesfull for teh minority, other countries rapidly adopted it to compete and the world fell into the capitalists hands.
Yet there are still countries today who do as much as possible to avoid it, the classic example being in Mexico, where with the introduction of the NAFTA that looked set to bind Mexican Peasants into western muti-nationals as a workforce the Zapatista's took up arms, we must do all we can to support these uprisings to ensure the collapse of the capitalist machine that has gained more power than we believed possible.
Capitalism is widely regarded as, the only economic system that works, you yourselves are i'm sure made aware that Communism is "against human nature and will never work." Not only are politicians in conspiracy with the education system to sweep over the brutal acts of capitalist society today, they also hide from us the brutality of implementation of this system, we are told it was a natural progression from fuedalism to capitalism, that it was a joyous ocasion that would set the stage for a prosperous society the likes of which have never before been apparent. Lies.
It was as early as the late 1500's that capitalism first reared it's ugly head, in a time of fuedal society whereby the Peasants were allowed a section of the Lord's estate to work n how they wished to an extent, we must not pretty this over as anything less than the despotic elite ruling over the Peasants however to an extent they were allowed free roam to create self sufficient societies without being under direct rule of their master, they were of course bound to remain there and provide a cut of profits to the Lord, yet he did not in anyway own their labour. Serfdom as it is now known,, was hardly a fair system, it had it's injustices, but what was to follow would by comparison be far more brutal.
Capitalism was originally implemented in England, whilst the word was rapidly becoming industrial led, the new batch of landowners began to devise a new legal system, one which would bind the Peasants to them, creating a workforce that could propel the country to become a superpower of types, to do this they needed a workforce that would enter the factories each day and work for little wage, but how? What Peasant would give up his more prosperous life under serfdom, to work for what Marx later described as 'Wage Labour'?
The capitalists knew that to get workers into the factories they would have to stop them being able to work for their own profit, and so they set out to own the only means of production, they privatized land left right and center, forcibly in many cases removing the Peasants from the land, offering them money should they work in the factores, money with which the Peasants could buy back land to shelter in.
Over the next few centuries, these "Enclosure tactics" became more common until much of England was under the grip of this new system, by the 16 and 1700's when the world was gripped by industrialization, all former Peasants were finally bound to capitalism and the wage labour scheme.
This system was by all means succesfull for teh minority, other countries rapidly adopted it to compete and the world fell into the capitalists hands.
Yet there are still countries today who do as much as possible to avoid it, the classic example being in Mexico, where with the introduction of the NAFTA that looked set to bind Mexican Peasants into western muti-nationals as a workforce the Zapatista's took up arms, we must do all we can to support these uprisings to ensure the collapse of the capitalist machine that has gained more power than we believed possible.