Rentier capitalism

Title Introduction (Thesis) America’s system of capitalism is a hot bed of inequality. Based on Rawlsian theory America’s current economic system, capitalism, is unjust. In Rawls, Property-Owning Democracy, and Democratic Socialism by Tom Malleson, capitalism is rejected for having unequal political power, unequal opportunity, and unequal wealth distribution. Unequal wealth is the major issue as it affects both political power and opportunity. Those who have more wealth can donate more to…

A brand takes the most idealized version of societally bound standards and commercializes a privileged race, class, or gender to increase momentum of hegemony and racial capitalism. This, as both philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Cedric Robinson would explain, is a direct effect of the formation of prioritizing a particular race and class thus manipulating our culture’s beliefs and values. In Black Marxism, Professor Cedric…

The current world is a place of ongoing crisis. People live and survive in a crisis cycle; one crisis after another. Either from natural occurring crisis such as hurricanes or earthquake to man made for example war or poverty. Looking at the present day crisis most will assume that crisis is a variable that is inevitable. However, there are many who disagree with the previous idea. Some believe that since the crisis is created by people it can also be destroyed by its creators. For humans are…

to the Mexico Profundo. On the other hand, the imaginary Mexico works to destroy the Mesoamerican way of life and to fill that void with western capitalism. After reading Batalla’s book, I have learned that the oppression of the Mexico Profundo still exists today. The internal forces of the imaginary Mexico and the external forces of western capitalism all work to subdue the Mesoamerican cultural identity. The reason why there is so much opposition between these two civilizations is because of…

and approaching. In the Ultimate Tyranny section of the introduction, David C. Korten, the author of When Corporations Rule the World, briefly explains that he used the term capitalism in the original edition of the book. Moving forward he expresses how people would miss that”…the book is about structure and dynamics of capitalism that’s stripped of its relentlessly promoted PR façade as the global champion of human liberty, democracy, and the market economy.” (Korten 20) Korten stated in the…

1) The relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat has been an ever-changing alliance since the dawn of capitalism. With the new methods of communication erupting over the course of time, the ability to control the masses has become significantly easier. In modern society today, pop culture has figuratively become the main source to how people choose to live their lives. From musicians to socialites and actors, the public turns to the hottest figures in media to understand the…

rationality and capitalism. These readings, in some extent, deliberates on how capitalist societies have evolved (and survived) through modern times. The neo-Marxist perspective heavily influenced this analysis. However, there is a contradiction that was not solved before: despite of the revolutions and crisis, the capitalism has found ways to not only to survive but also to legitimize itself. Some may argue that original Marxist ideas are obsoleted with the evolution of capitalism. However,…

Sociology theories can be viewed from all parts of life, including movies. In Time, a science-fiction film released in 2011 is a great example of not only sociological theories at play, but for specifically spotting themes that Karl Marx and Max Weber wrote about in their writings. To better understand the movie first, before diving into an analytical look at the film, I will give a small narration of the plot. The citizens in the movie including the main characters, Will Salas and Sylvia Weiss…

including cheap labour (Shangquan 2000: 1). As part of the drive towards ‘modernisation’ and global economic integration, many female workers are relocating around the world, following the promise of better work opportunities. However as the nature of capitalism inevitably involves the exploitation of workers for increased profit (Marx in Robinson 2004: 3), many of these women are then trafficked into the profit-rich sex industry, currently the third most profitable illegal industry in the world…

The underlying problem of the prison industrial complex will be defined through the prison industrial complex to exploit lower class citizens through capitalism, yet within the context of spiritual liberation of vipassana mediation as defined in Changing from Inside, Dhamma Brothers, and Doing time, Doing Vipassana. The film Dhamma Brothers, the internal spiritual freedom of Buddhism is analyzed within the context of prisoners of the prison industrial complex as a form of capitalistic…