Tuesday, February 6, 2007

thoughts on capitalism

Understanding the influence of capitalism on our political and social institutions is key to understanding how our society works. What is that influence?

Some thoughts...

-Capitalism is a way of organizing a society based on differences in the accumulation of wealth, such that the more wealth one accumulates, the more one seeks to protect it, as is reflected in our political and social institutions.

-A secular government is one in which religious institutions are kept out of the government arena, the seperation of church and state. What would one call a government in which business interests were kept seperate from those of the government?

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