Economic Systems

    After the Feudalistic and Mercantilist ways of thinking, recent history and its economists have introduced us to four major schools of thoughts when it comes to the adoption of an economic system. capitalism, socialism, communism, and the now seemingly obsolete fascism. I say obsolete, because the unbalanced military arsenals of world countries, especially if you look at the dominating force that is the United States of America, has forced small countries to reluctantly abandon a fascist like economy.

    A lot of people talk about communism as being a dehumanized system and a disrespectful economic doctrine in regards to human rights. In my opinion, communism is by far, the most human-friendly of economic systems because it protect its citizens of human kind's worst enemy, man. When you talk about being an abusive system, and dangerous for a portion of its population, there's one system who fits these characteristics, capitalism. By far the most discriminating, disrespectful, selfish, and narrow minded system of beliefs, but here's the catch, you have to be clever enough to notice the mechanism of this larger than life propaganda machine. In this analysis of economical systems, I will primarily focus on capitalism and communism, socialism being a system of such neutrality (which is in most ways good), that it renders its discussion and analysis rather passive.

    The main objective of an economical system is to create and maintain a state of financial and social wealth for its citizens, and because of its non lucrative purpose, to redistribute any surplus back into the system. Why do I say capitalism is an abusive system is because, yes to a certain extent they do offer programs helping the less fortunate, but it fails in many departments when it comes to approaching the real problems of society with a human approach. Yes, wealth is the motivation, but global financial balance should be the objective. The capitalist way of thinking creates deprivation not only among its enemies but also among its allies. Adam Smith's theories of šLaissez-Faireš promotes the notion that only the strongest will and should survive. Although no nation in history has ever adopted the integral philosophy he suggested, where no government intervention is required in an economy that would maneuver by itself, most of the world's countries are now running a adjusted version of it. If there's one thing prone by capitalist economists, or a secret behind this successful school of thoughts, it's to take advantage of human weaknesses. Jealousy, greed, lust, and envy are among the vices exploited by the capitalist ideal and represent the foundation of such economical structure. Fact of the matter is that, not all people are born with the same intellectual, physiological, physical, and spiritual attributes, capitalist economist are taught to capitalize on that, economist say that capitalism creates opportunities, but these opportunities were not created, they result from the distribution disparities of theses attributes. What is to be disliked most about the capitalist movement is the level of hypocrisy that reigns with regards to one's motivations and objectives. In a system similar to that, only four kinds of individuals can attain financial success and preferential social positioning, people born and raised in that sphere of society, money driven intellectual, strong minded individuals, and people possessing entertaining qualities, bringing interest to them. This small group of civilians constitute only a small segment of any population. So what happens with the majority of the population, cast-in as dependant beings, dependant of the system, left out, maybe, but realisticly impossible. Because they are needed by the minority deciding the faith of the country and theirs, deciding the directions in which the structure is headed. These groups always form the blue collar workers of society, not thinkers but doers, puppets executing, not understanding orders of the minority in power. The capitalist thinking embedded in America, Europe, and in the rest of the world found its success in exploitation, and slavery. Not the type of slavery made popular by the ancient civilizations , where prisoners of wars were put to slavery after being captured or unable to repay debts, but by savage, humiliating, and brutal techniques where free men were kidnapped and extradited to a port of arrival unknown to them and their loved ones deprived of that special someone. These techniques can explain how in 400 years of European exploitation, America has now economically catch and then surpass the old continent. These techniques are still use today around the world to ensure and secure financial wealth. The biggest advocate of capitalism have one major objection when it comes to communism, they say that this system demonstrates a lack of freedom. But let's be honest, everybody that knows and understands capitalism, is aware that it's a very technical, synthetic system, it's a book. A book where people and their behaviors are not controlled but expected, because every single decision and action taken is done from economical perspective . Human differences and inequalities are categorize in two groups, strengths and weaknesses.

    To operate a perfect capitalist economy, there's a number of requirements that have to be respected, the right amount of leaders and followers and a certain disinformation or propaganda when it comes to informing the population about the different mechanisms of capitalism. Where the illusion of unlimited monetary resources are at the finger tips of everybody, but they are not, only to those three groups previously mentioned. The notion that there's a fix amount of money on earth should not even be discussed. Money and resources can change forms, but the fact of the matter is that when someone gains a substantial amount of profit, could be as low as a dollar, another person or another group of person automatically losses that amount. To say that capitalism creates is true , yes, but not opportunities, it creates opportunists.

    Before judging a concept such as capitalism and communism, you have to understand their aims, and the reason why they were create. In short you have to understand their intent, to make money or to better balance an unjust world. Karl Marx described human history as the attempt of men and women to develop and apply their potential for creativity for the purpose of controlling the forces of nature so as to improve the human condition. In this ongoing effort to develop its productive forces, humanity has been remarkably successful; history has been the march of progress. Yet in developing productivity, various social institutions have been created that have introduced exploitation, domination, and other evils; the price humanity pays for progress is an unjust society.

Definitions:

Capitalize:

cap­i­tal­ize (kap i-tl-iz) v.

cap­i­tal­ized cap­i­tal­iz­ing

  1. To convert into capital

  2. To supply with capital

  3. To turn something to one's advantage: capitalize on another's error. See synonyms at benefit.

 

Community:

com-mu-ni-ty (ko-myoo'ni-te) n.

pl. com-mu-ni-ties

  1. a. A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. b. The locality in which such a group lives

  2. A group of people having common interests.

  3. Similarity: a community of interests.

  4. Society as a whole

  5. Ecology. A group of plants and animals living with one another in a specific region

[From Latin communitas]