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"[Capitalism] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, uncon
by littletimmy 11y ago
"[Capitalism] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
This is quite the end game of capitalism, isn't it?
Individuals do not matter, capital does. Given that corporations have capital, they're the ones who matter. People, especially the disadvantaged ones who lack capital, are not important. Justice means the service of capital. If we agree to that, we'd see that this "new" system is not that unusual. If you have unfettered capitalism, you give up all other values to capital, including individual justice.