Monday, April 20, 2009

Capitalism vs. Communism

I read some newspaper article defending Communism and saying this is the systematic collapse of Capitalism. Also, quoting the famous Marx argument that "Capitalism will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction".

My thought is our idea of socio-economic system is totally wrong. Let me explain.

The capitalist system, uses human greed as the building block of a system which is supposed to create prosperity for all. However, American dominance of the world tweaked the system design such that it creates prosperity for America. How much ever resources or hardworking men or capital other countries get, prosperity will always be with America. This is called American Hegemony.

Capitalism has a systematic flaw, that humanity will create so much production, and capitalism has no way to destroy excess capacity except by killing people using a war.
Communism has a systematic flaw, that humanity will not have enough motivation to create things, because benefit finally goes to the community or the society.

Whether Capitalism fails or not, but it definitely gave us a wonderful time with lots of ups and downs. I don't think that Communism was a great socio-economic system either. Communism would have failed badly and humanity could have never come close to the kind of development Capitalism could achieve.

What is the best socio-economic system, which is self sustainable, is not prone to systematic flaws ?

There comes the idea of Religion. A system above all socio-economic system, tried and tested, without systematic flaw.


When human beings feel intense heat from the sun, Capitalism suggests human beings for invention of Air Conditioners. However, Religion suggests reaching such spiritual levels in mind, that you do not feel the heat anymore. Capitalist system is materialistic, where body is cooled down when it feel the heat. Religious system are spiritualistic, by cutting of the pointer in mind which sends the sensation that body is feeling heat. I will leave it up to you to decide which one is better.

Materialism and Spiritualism are similar to idea of accessing things via value and access via pointer in C/C++ respectively. We need to fill our material desires by taking the pointer to that desire and pointing it to NULL. Instead of creating random things to fill that material desire.

Under capitalism, we have become such mother fuckers that we are fucking up our mother nature in a 6 billion people group orgy. Why do you need a dining set which defines you as a person ? Why do we need to have perfumes and watches to differentiate ourselves ? Why do you
want to roam around the world ?

We have become obsessed with these material desires to obtain such things. And after obtaining frustrated to maintain such things. After frustration, fearful of losing such things.
We have researched all the wrong things. It is time to research our minds. It is the time for the world to leave its materialism and start moving towards spirituality. This financial crisis will mark a lot of things. The crisis has just begun.

2 comments:

  1. Religion

    Tried and tested? I agree

    Without flaw? I beg to differ :)

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  2. I changed it to Systematic flaw. Systematic flaw means, that the system is not sustainable in itself.
    For example Capitalism is not sustainable in itself, because resources on the earth are limited and human greed is unlimited.

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