Capitalism’s the Invisible Hand Dividing and Destroying Society

It cultivates our behaviors and beliefs, yet it’s so institutionalized we don’t recognize it.

Human Element by Beeple

We would know capitalism is the only socio-economic structure we should fear if we didn’t learn history through a pro-capitalist framework. The system elicits slavery, indigenous genocide, imperialism, wars, fascism, exploitation, consolidation of power, alienation, environmental degradation, and most of the world’s brutalities, but we only address its financial advantages.

We believe in the capitalists’ definition of democracy and freedom because they give us hope, but centuries of imprisonment disoriented our concept of sovereignty. As feudalism transitioned to capitalism, landlords progressed to bankers, fiefs became the divisions of labor, and money replaced land. Capitalists awarded the working class the right to purchase materials and borrow from the banks, but society has never experienced true liberation.

The US government launched the first Red Scare when Vladimir Lenin and the working class toppled their capitalist government in 1917. Twelve years later, capitalism devastated the global economy, and the fallout facilitated radicalism across wartorn Europe. In fear of Soviet socialism influencing Germany’s post-WWI…