New essay that I have yet to name Exordium: It is no longer the age of enlightenment. It is no longer the age of renaissance. It is no longer the age of industrialization. But it is not the digital age of information. It is not a new dawn of men. It is the age of modern factory owners. It is the age of the lords of enterprise. It is the age of the corporate patricians. It is the new era of the bourgeoisie. The bloody waves of the crimson tide has faded, uncertainty reigning over the hitherto passionate revolutionaries; more to ponder about, more to regret about. Nonetheless the steady process of privatization is still underway. The greatest of all wealthy nations, the United States of America, the symbology of every business dream, has tumbled the last of her ideological enemies. The Soviet Union has crumbled beneath its own doing, and corporate values have penetrated the last of the Chinese revolutionary brethren. It is but the ever luminous summits of wealth accumulation in its finest that turns the every last purity in men into a machine of hunger. It would be certain that capitalism breeds this so that it can sustain its ever increasing expansion. And what is it that fuels the golden age of capitalism, the infinite growth of money? The answer is deep within our own minds, for capitalism, in its simplest definition, is an economic system that seeks to accumulate wealth through the privatization of the means of production (i.e. capital), and from this definition we can come to a bold conclusion that it is nothing but greed that embraces this ideal. Greed, at every level of the social hierarchy, has been objectified as the saint of life. But it must not be considered a virtue. Neither a sin, nor a taboo. We must embrace greed for it is the only driving gear in the ever turning wheels of materialism. And yet again it is neither a complement nor a contradiction to my exposition. If greed in its finest has toppled all enemies of its own, assimilating the most ferocious into its docile playthings, then why should it not be pursued, for its power must be so rare and fair? The hailed leader of last centurys volatile political period, Marx, predicted that the communist exuberance would crush its archenemy to stardust and reduce its glory into a page in the communist victorys chapter. It may seem that he has been fooled to believe that power would be radically redistributed in such a way. His famous political handbook of socialism, the Communist Manifesto, must have been merely a hopeful dream. But it is his Magnum Opus, Das Kapital, that is still and will remain unequally relevant to our mode of production. I shall first explain an important question raised in the prologue of this exposition, i.e. what is greeds true form?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:44:39 +0000
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