Do you agree with this statement?

Question

"War, poverty, exploitation and oppression are products of the capitalist system, a system in which a minority ruling class profits from the labor of the majority."

It is Karl Marx, good job.

Answer 1

No, because it discounts the benefit received by the "laboring majority" from being able to sell their labor, and force employers to compete for their services. If there are no laborers, there are no employers, if there are no employers, there are no employees.

Your quote is essentially the motto of socialism. The problem is, if you eliminate economic competition as a means of distributing labor, it is replaced by something more inefficient and ultimately more oppressive.

Answer 2

I agree with Marx analyze but not with his idea's on how to fix the problem.
Besides Marx is outdated,you can have a free economy with social corrections like in Europe.Your 360 seems to advocate communism and that's against human nature,too little personal freedom.
People are selfish,all of us,we can't use a system that doesn't work on real people or we have to oppress them and then we become fascists.
Free market economy with social corrections is the way to go.

Answer 3

War has existed long before capitalism.

Poverty, true crushing poverty, does not exist in capitalist nations any longer. However, it is alive and well in countries that use other economic systems.

Oppression? You mean like when communist countries sent millions to the gulags and millions more to their deaths in the 20th century?

The "minority ruling class" as you put it, is mostly made up of business owners or highly educated professionals. People who started and built their businesses up from scratch, risking their homes and savings, while working 60 - 80 hours a week to get it going. Or people who spent 6 or 8 years of their adult lives getting advanced degrees. And in the end, they rule nothing but their own lives and businesses, because any person, regardless of intelligence or education can vote in the people who will run the government.

The truth is that capitalism is guilty of none of these things. Capitalism is only guilty of increasing wealth, everyone's wealth. The rising tide of capitalism lifts all boats.

Answer 4

Yeah! I pretty much agree with that statement, with a few exceptions....




edit: Just reading some of the other answers....Boy!~ I wish someone was competing for my labors. Jobs are at a minimum these days, or haven't you noticed.

Answer 5

When quoting negatives about the theory of a captialist system it is important to illustrate the POVERTY stricken people whose labor is EXPLOITED and their feelings and freedoms OPPRESSED in the current countries who are communist...
-China
-North Korea
-Cuba
(the list goes on)

Answer 6

There is limited truth in that statement, but I do not agree with the premise that the capitalist system is evil and inhumane.

Answer 7

it typifies parts of the "builderburger" creedo, from a historical perspective. of influences prior to during, and after these processes occur. all of these are the result of processes known and unknown, and selective decision making, by those hidden entities of greatest: wealth, power , and major influence,in our world..

Answer 8

I do not agree..The problem is that there are a lot of people who
don't want to do for themselves, they would rather be done for
by others. Particularly the government.

Thank you very much, while you're up!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Good ol' Marx. Too bad he didn't have a viable solution...

Answer 10

Yes that perfectly explains the history of the US from its conception.