How can education and organization of people be damaging to capitalism? Or should I say corporatism?

Answer 1

Well duh. You've already answered your own Question in part.

People are more easily controlled (by anyone) when they are isolated, and when they are too ignorant to make anything resembling *informed* choices. Too much isolation ends up making most people emotionally unstable (no support network leading to depression at least), and then the ignorance--the *lack* of knowledge really, not so much about "correct" or "incorrect" knowledge--ends up leading people to *lean* on those unsteady emotions rather than think for themselves.

Essentially, the education and organization of ordinary people empowers them to act on their own behalf. If you want a good example of the principle....look at the way the Slavery/Plantation system once worked in the Southern United States. It was once *illegal* to teach an African on American soil how to read and write. And the process of abducting people by the millions on slave ships was *designed* implicitly to break up families, villages, whole social structures lost.

Keeping people isolated and ignorant for decades if not centuries. And....in spite of the Emancipation Proclamation that occurred courtesy of Abraham Lincoln in the War Between the States, civil rights and *human* rights for people of African heiritage in America really *didn't* move forward until both the ignorance *and* the isolation were addressed. This is why Martin Luther King and his peers were able to move things forward where Malcom X was not. Education alone isn't enough....even the smartest of geniuses can only do so much in a vacuum, with no one to work with them. The Isolation *also* has to end....people need to be organized into a structure that *can* engage the current society on a *Peer-level* footing and negotiate mutually agreeable results.

Breaking that last sentence down a little, as it tells the whole story as to why Corporations have such a vested interest in being *against* the widespread education and organization of ordinary people (everyday, working citizens).

--"The Isolation *also* has to end..." Meaning people have to be *aware* that they aren't Minorities of One, and that it is *safe* to organize into things like labor unions, protest groups, independent and 3rd-party political parties, and the like. This is one of the *biggest* barriers these days. People feel like if they get together with like-minded individuals and pursue *their own* agenda, that others will go McCarthy on them and *accuse them* of de facto treason (the old "A vote for Nader was a vote for *Bush* damn you!" argument). And the Media doesn't help in this regard, it makes things worse by underscoring every *last* division and niche (for so-called advertising and marketing reasons) in such a way as to make many people feel as if "ok, maybe *I am* the only one on the planet who feels *this way*..."

--"people need to be organized into a structure that *can* engage the current society..." *This* is where Malcom X failed to be a truly great leader. He was all about remaining separate. He was all about keeping his people apart *and safer from* the "white majority" of his day. Which was understandable, given the nature of the times, but....

It takes two to tango. The sound of one hand clapping is silence, or non-sound. Things don't *happen* in isolation. If someone else is *being* a part of your problem, you cannot just withdraw from that person forever and hope they go away. When that happens the other person has no *reason* or incentive to change his or her ways....in effect you are simply giving the other party a *license* to "pick another victim" as opposed to actually changing their ways.

So it isn't enough to organize workers, for example, into *support groups* for Wal-Mart empolyees....that might be helpful in the short term (preserving sanity and keeping folks from going postal is a good thing), but really, it doesn't answer the question which is "How do we--the employees--get the company to change its abusive and antisocial behavior?" Organizing and *Using* a Labor Union *does*. That would solve the problem.

--"on a *Peer-level* footing...." This one is simple. Corporations have to *accept* that they are NOT Kings and DO NOT rule by some divine right. They have to accept on some level that it IS NOT all about the damned money. Meaning, they have to accept that there are Other Powers in this world besides the Power of Wealth, and that they DO NOT own the whole world, nor should they.

It's the simplest point, but not the easiest one. We have some 26 years and counting of Mass Media induced Stockholm Snydrome to fight off...some 26 years of Men in Suits on TV telling us that Big Business Rules, that Trump is God, etc., and that anyone who disagrees is "liberal" and therefore both wrong and somehow "treacherous".

It's not going to be easy to say *no* to the Plantation Massuhs when they *own* the Media these days, and when they *refuse* to believe (or let anyone else believe) that There Can Be Power Without Big (Oil) Money. The Internet-driven New Economy was a brutal case in point here....eventually Big Oil and Big Banking crushed the life out of it when too many *ordinary people* were getting rich and sassy *without* playing the Plantation game, without being "down" on their Chain Gang.

--"and negotiate mutually agreeable results." This one almost deserves a breakdown of its own, but to make it really plain. *Negotiate* as opposed to one side *dictating* or bossing or forcing things. *Mutually Agreeable* as opposed to unilateral, as opposed to One Side *Winning* and Taking All....meaning *all parties* get something they want out of things.

And *Results*, meaning things get done, problems get *Solved* and not just exploited, end-run, and so on. Meaning we *don't* have to see a Parasitic Cottage Industry pop-up that is designed to *exploit* the issue and *keep* people engaged in the system, stuck in the *rut* of a problem, until it becomes a *Complex*, both political and psychological.

In very short, plain and rude terms.

The Corporations aren't satisfied with being Haves.

They aren't happy with being Have Mores either.

The Corporations will *not* give it a rest until the whole world economy is as broken as Haiti's, until it looks like something out of a Gibson or Phillip K. Dick novel....

They won't rest until *they* are the Have ALLS, and the rest of us are the Have NONES, living in near East-African misery and ruin. If you want to see the future, really, look at New Orleans, both *immediately* after Katrina, and then during the Military Occupation for a year-plus afterward.

*That* is what the Companies have in mind for us. ALL of us.

Not just a Jackboot, crushing a Human Face forever....oh no. They want that Human Face to THANK THEM for the privilege of *ending their misery* as well. Misery *THEY THEMSELVES* inflicted.

Can I make it any plainer? ^_^ Let's hope not, shall we?

Thanks for your time....and God have mercy on us. We need it.

Answer 2

Hey, you got someone named "Ron Paul 08", he's supposed to be running in some kind of contest? Some serious name recognition there...

But this is a really silly question. Since you add "or should I say corporatism", I assume you're trying to relate current economic models with current education practices. But that's a non sequitur. A free market economy adapts to the needs and wants, the demand inspired by the educational practices (mainly marketing campaigns). Unless a society is educated strictly against capitalism, there is no effect. And if a society is educated against capitalism, then you have no question.

Get a job.

Answer 3

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, such as buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market do not actually work.

Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Pathological lying about profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the public with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names, fake backgrounds, and fake property).

Actual economics involves the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies owning the companies, and voting at work in order to operate the companies they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary beneficial parents, false economics, and criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Answer 4

People will become minimalists and move away from 9 to 5 slavery hurting the corporate power over the people. I think the more you learn the more you love learning and it leads to an intent to work less and learn more then contribute to the society.

The only life worth living is the altruistic one.

Answer 5

education primarily teaches how to be an employee rather than an entrepreneur. We are taught to behave and work for others.

also, we are taught that making money is the sign of success, not being educated, or helping others or artistic expression, so our educational system is really set up to be money making machines.

although making money and having a good life is fine.

society doesn't really allow us to be individuals, does it, there is this conform to the standard rule, isn't there? and those who don't are either punished or idolized.

Answer 6

YOUR A THINKER, I LIKE THAT ABOUT YOU! HERES THE SHORT VERSION. WE GET SMART, SEE WHAT IS GOING ON, GROUP TOGETHER AND DEMAND CHANGE. MAJOR CORPORATIONS SUCH AS HALLIBURTON, WHO NOW LIVE IN DUBAI, AS WELL AS ALL THOSE WHO PROFIT FROM WAR, BUSH/CARLYLE, CHENEY, AS WELL AS COUNTLESS OTHERS OF THE NWO AND THE ILLUMINATI, WELL PROFITS DROP, AGENDAS FAIL AND SO ON

Answer 7

It really depends on what your definition of "capitalism" is...

Answer 8

It can't, as long as the instruction is according to sound economic principles. Unfortunately, these are not as widely understood as they should be.

Answer 9

what are you talking about.