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Capitalism as a System of Coersion
It is clear that the representative system of government represents only the interests of the capitalist class. It is also clear that the capitalist class is the most powerful group of people in the world and that no other higher power exists on Earth that can keep this class in check. It is also clear that the left is virtually nonexistant politically and has limited influence because it has no control over the education of children and the right has total control of education. The right similarly controls the publishing companies, television/radio/newspaper companies, all the important land and buildings. Capitalism is a brutal and unreasonable economic system barely distinguishable from feudalism. The majority are still kept in check by a pseudo-ethical system appealing to emotion and the existing cultural standards. This system proposes that murder is immoral always between citizens of a nation but is always justified when performed by the nation in general. Even the most heinous wars are justified by those who benefit from them and the public is powerless to stop any war no matter how little justification there is. The effect of all this is wars are fought with public money to benefit wealthy individuals. War is then merely a way to protect business interests by looting the public treasury.
Where does this class derive their power? Originally from labor but eventually by the mathematical notation of labor, the commodities it manifests and the resources required for their manifestation from labor. What is essential to this notation system is the quantification of time in hours, of money in dollars (or some other word depending on the country), education in credits and age in years. It is through mathematics that they secure power, by accumulating numbers that can be exchanged for commodities and services provided by some other. So really capitalism is distinguished from feudalism by wealth existing as abstract quantified human labor (and as labor changes form over time this quantity changes with it) rather than physical accumulations of labor (such as gold, stone, iron, food, etc.) though these are still the standard by which these numbers are valued. The capitalist class then is, like feudalism, a way to accumulate the wealth produced by humanity through a complex system of manipulation where all subjective beings are valued insofar as they benefit this system of manipulation. Government though appearing as a separate entity is really as it was in feudalism merely a way of influencing other societies to benefit our own and keeping the public in check through displays of physical violence such as cages, the denial of food, the denial of shelter and execution. Are there any objections?
Something us leftists must learn to use in order to get their message across effectively to the workers, and change the existing system.
My only real objection is that in feudalism, to be part of the ruling class you must have been born in it.
Good analysis nonetheless.
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I do believe capitalism and feudalism are distinguishable but the inheritance rights of power present in feudalism are preserved, albeit in a new form, within capitalism when wealthy children are trained to be the new leaders of the world. There still exist stark inequalities of power and wealth in our society. Wealthy families education and position in society give them advantages in competing in the economy, preserving power along bloodlines in a very similar manner to feudalism. There are still people who are born into positions of power. It is not exactly the same but the problems that exist in capitalism have their origin in the ancient past.
Though technology is now present that has changed the material conditions of our lives the master slave relations present in feudalism are preserved in our system. Capitalism and feudalism are as distinguishable as an acorn is from an oak tree but they are manifestations of fundamentally the same thing. They are one unified whole and the reason why property rights are protected to the extent that they are now is due to the previous existance of feudalism. Capitalism is simply the flowering of the noxious weed that is feudalism and the false master slave dichotomy its devotees advocate must be abolished.
