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Capitalism is... and this, almost I'm tempted to say is what is great about it,
although I'm very critical of it... Capitalism is more an ethical/religious category for me.
It's not true when people attack capitalists as egotists. "They don't care."
No! An ideal capitalist is someone who is ready, again, to stake his life,
to risk everything just so that production grows, profit grows, capital circulates.
His personal or her happiness is totally subordinated to this.
This is what I think Walter Benjamin, the great Frankfurt School companion thinker,
had in mind when he said capitalism is a form of religion. You cannot explain, account for a figure of a passionate with.
Capitalism is more an ethical/religious category for me. It's not true when people attack capitalists as egotists.
"They don't care." No! An ideal capitalist is someone who is ready, again, to stake his life.
to risk everything just so that production grows, profit grows, capital circulates.
His personal or her happiness is totally subordinated to this.
This is what I think Walter Benjamin, the great Frankfurt School companion thinker,
had in mind when he said capitalism is a form of religion. You cannot explain, account for a figure
of a passionate capitalist, obsessed with expanded circulation, with rise of his company,
in terms of personal happiness.
Capitalism is... and this, almost I'm tempted to say is what is great about it,
although I'm very critical of it... Capitalism is more.
Capitalism is... and this, almost I'm tempted to say is what is great about it.
Capitalism is more an ethical/religious category for me. It's not true when people attack capitalists as egotists.
"They don't care." No! An ideal capitalist.