Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Capitalist World-System: Part 1

[depro9]

I made the picture at 7:29 in 2002 via a pirated version of adobe photoshop. My image has been seen globally a few times. :) thanks for using it in your presentation.

[GodAthie]

capitalism is the best way to feed the world... also a boom/bust economy is not REAL capitialism its keynesian economics with no soild currency

india in only 10 years cut its poverty rate by half with a free market

[kamranii]

Should have done something about that cold before you recorded this.

[ButherLi55ett]

All culture is class culture, destroy all bourgeois culture, smash the art museums.

[yanikv]

this has been by far my favorite video of yours. Wallerstein postulates are pretty sound, though there are a few holes.

Good summary.. I sincerely hope that you produce a similar video on the subject of human nature, perhaps on the ideas advanced by people like Edward Wilson.

Well done.

[Guncriminal]

Which state indoctrination course was this written for?

[TheCaptianCanuck]

It is the way we create money which should not be confused with capitalism. The banking system survives on growth. We no longer have a gold standard. Gov't could create money simple by printing it for there needs. But gov't needs are to great to make this system work without inflation. If we reduced the role of Gov't in our affairs, the system could be sustainable without taxation. Which is really social engineering and control. Money movement is the engine of capitalism.

[JoeFielding72]

This video opened up so much. You are amazing. Your mind is filled with so much knowledge that flows out and brings so much to me that I never thought about or even realized. I am looking forward to watching and learning more with your videos. Are you going to be a teacher? I just ask because you are super smart. I am sending you Big hugs and tons of kisses for your cheeks. I hope you have the best Sunday ever. God bless you and your family.

[BoundlessEyes]

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You HAVE to stop watching my videos pissed, lols =P

[fuckgodfuckyou]

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[vetromaster]

Good video presentation.

Capitalism is alive and well, and it will be so for at least 60 more years.

[cycimian]

The perposed system of a totalian class is accademic, Find me a place through out all of man where the subserviance or dominance has not been the mainstay. So in essence what we are living into is always beyond the control of the mass by the Fucking Devil itself.

[mogulwraith]

"Find me a place through out all of man where the subserviance or dominance has not been the mainstay."

You believe there have never been anarchist societies? Why do you believe that? A simple google search will give you the answer to your question. People do not need to be enslaved, that is the enslavement talking.

[preachingsin]

I can't recall the last time I saw a video this concise that offered me nothing to disagree with. Even the use of imagery was poineint, more so for not being the same old batch used ad nauseum. Great work. Can't wait for the continuation, maybe it will even give me something to nitpick.

[subach]

I find it particularly difficult to take such a publication seriously when the greatest factor in the accumulation "surplus values"- That is the energy input of machines, computers, and other technologies into the world economy- is completely ignored in some vain attempt imply that workers become increasingly exploiting over time. The data in question- the average hours a person works per week- has shown a consistent downward trend from the advent of agriculture onward.

[boobmcnutt]

"I find it...imply that workers become increasingly exploiting over time."

I don't believe that any of her theses was that "workers become increasingly exploiting over time", but rather that bosses are always trying to get the most work from their workers with as little recompense as possible.

"average hours...per week- has shown a consistent downward trend..."

You've got statistical data that dates back several thousand years before the advent of writing? Okay Colin Powell, whatever you say.

[subach]

Well I'm unsure whether it's as you state(that bosses a tendency toward trying...) or that there is an observed trend, but either way people today work less for more pay than ever before so it doesn't matter.

I simply don't know why you'd assume I'm referring to strictly statistical data.Though much of the data I so broadly referred to is statistical in nature, there are a number of great techniques archeologists have developed to tease out the lifestyles of prehistoric peoples.

[boobmcnutt]

Since you don't have information in front of you, and you're making these assertions about more pay/less work (in a "consistent downward trend" for >10,000 years now, around the earth (which is problematic in it's own right)) I think you would do well to ask yourself whether you're making this "consistent downward trend" up because it's logically a necessary case, or whether you're taking a wild stab. And while you're at it, try reading the wiki for "working time" and following the links.

[subach]

I'm noticing a tendency for you to make a lot of assumptions. Why would you assume I don't have the data in front of me when you know we're communication on a medium which does not allow links. In any event the wiki lists data without citations as noted here.

"(Compiled from various sources[specify] by Juliet B. Schor; Germany figure from OECD data[citations needed])"

This isn't usable but it shows a general downtrend anyway with variations due to black death induced Renaissance ....

[boobmcnutt]

I assumed that you didn't have the data in front of you, and that your claims amounted to conjecture because a) the relevant data you would need to make those sorts of statements doesn't exist, and b) if it did exist; as far as I can tell, it wouldn't support your thesis.

And this is because; work weeks vary drastically around the world, people in non-agriculture-based cultures don't all toil at 60 hour work weeks, and factors like industrialization for example make your claim patently untrue.

[subach]

Well if you say so, that sure settles it for me...

Yes the work week varies, but I'm sure those scientists never thought of regional analysis, or adjustments based on GPD or anything. I think I specifically mentioned something about the advent of agriculture. I absolutely agree that hunter gatherer societies spend the least time working, but since we can't support 6 billion people that way it's rather pointless comparison which has nothing to do with the topic.

[boobmcnutt]

Your claim that I take issue with is this one: "The data in question- the average hours a person works per week- has shown a consistent downward trend from the advent of agriculture onward." The fact that hunter-gatherer societies spend the least amount of time working (excepting outliers) is exactly on topic, since those hunter-gatherers' work weeks are added to the average world-wide work week (esp considering the saturation of agriculture).

Maybe your claim/thesis needs to be refined.

[BayAreaLen]

Expansion/contraction is heavily manipulated by the Fed. It generates booms, resulting in the middle class investing with confidence, only to have, what I call the "icing on their cake," scraped off with each cycle, concentrating the wealth to the select few who feel that they need to achieve some form of a global monopoly to gain "order."

Well done! Very informative. You're a true soldier of the human spirit, and sharp as a blade too!

[BayAreaLen]

Did you draw the picture at 01:28 ? That's adorable!

[GriffinPilgrim]

Very well stated.