Fairy tales of capitalists: the market-capitalist religion. Most excerpts were borrowed from the Findlay edition. The premises of the market-capitalist religion are: Humans are naturally greedy-selfish. Capitalism harnesses greed and selfishness for productive dynamism. Capitalism successfully delivers the goods. Capitalism is invincible. One reason anthropology knows more about capitalism than any other discipline is that anthropologists have not…
Cultural Anthropology: Capitalism has not delivered the goods.
One reason anthropology knows more about capitalism than any other discipline is that anthropologists have not just studied capitalism from the inside: most anthropology was done with people subjected to capitalism, people who were often forced to provide the
labor or coerced into furnishing the raw materials for capitalist dynamism.
For much of the world’s population,
capitalism has already been a miserable failure.(Covid-19 pandemics has demonstrated this failure? Except for the mass media platforms?)
Of course indigenous response has varied:
1. there have been those who have profited tremendously from capitalism;