Capitalism Self Destruction

Many people think that communism is death. They assume this after the nineties with the dissolution of the Sovietic Union. However, currents events are supporting what Karl Marx predicted many years ago. The Capitalist system is going to eventually collapse.

If we see what is happening know in the United States we will notice that there is an enormous debt that is growing and growing and now is more than a trillion dollars ($1000000000000). This country also just faced an economic crisis and some experts are predicting more crisis like this one in the future. Also, many of the good values in this society are getting lost; everyday irresponsible consumption becomes a bigger component of the modern American Lifestyle. We tend to think that capitalism is making us freer. However I disagree with this assumption, people now have to work more and more in order to pay their debts. Some people have to sell all their goods in order to get medical care, because the insurance companies have denied helping them. We are not freer, we are slaves of the money and just small and greedy elite is enjoying of most of the wealth in the country. So, is capitalism really a good think? I don´t think so.

Marx predicted that the workers would eventually rise against the bourgeoisie and will look for a system more similar to communism. And this is exactly what is happening now. The occupy movement has raised the interest in one of the issues that we tend to see as normal in the past. Only 20% of the population in the USA is enjoying of 80% of the money. Many people is joining and supporting this movement. While the rest of the people have to conform witj living as slaves of an oppressor system, fooled with the idea that with a big effort they would be able to be more like that greedy elite. And the reality is that is not happening. They believe that this system increase the hard work, when what really does is to keep the masses fooled and generating the benefits enjoyed by the elite.

And what I found even more stupid, is that some people insist in saying that this inequality is normal. Probably if you distribute all the money, some people will start to accumulate more than others again, but of course this does not work like that. This can happen because there has been an unequal distribution of opportunities. For instance, for a college graduate will be easier to make money than for someone who didn’t had that opportunity. I will take years to guarantee equal opportunities to all the population. Then money will start losing its value as status provider. And one day money would stop being our motivation for everything what we do. And our motivation will be to enjoy this life and develop our human potential, instead of a desperately search for accumulation of money.

Capitalism success was given the fact that it can move faster that communism, but the fact that it can move faster does not means that is the best thing.