Заметки алкоголика и придурка
19. Aprīlis 2021
07:47
Nothing wrong with trade, economy, capital, private property.
The problem with capitalism is the "ism" part. It is the idea the entire purpose of a society is to produce capital and wealth. In ancient civilizations, economic concerns were only secondary if not tertiary to the interests of the society, which were sacred first and foremost (in healthy traditional societies) and temporal secondarily (temporal in terms of authority and power, usually military).
Economic "values" are purely and exclusively concerned with quantity, where as traditional societies were centered around qualitative questions. Capitalism pushes quality out of the way and makes quantity its chief concerns. Where ancient societies were content with very little, the very thing that allows capitalism to survive is a continuous increase in material goods and wealth.( ... tālāk ... )