Awhile ago when looking at news about Occupy Wallstreet, one of the protests stated "we are not against capitalism, just against corruption and the way things are." I found this to be a strange statement because on the one hand how can you be protesting against the banks and greed, yet support the system that promotes that? I find that when it comes down to it people love the benefits of capitalism, but hate the system.
Capitalism has and will always be a system of exploitation. Whether it would be petty capitalism such as a farmer selling his crops, merchants selling commodities or the bankers/owners of production/corporations who are the major bourgeoisie, capitalism is about exploiting others to gain capital. The system will not change and cannot change, history has shown that you can only tame capitalism to a certain point, then it will go out of control. It is either removal of the system completely or live with the small immediate changes. You may ask why things cannot change, the simple answer to this is human nature. As humans we need or want things and the system of capital will always have humans desiring more capital.
The question is: "What do people really want?" Can people live with a hybrid system of a socialist/capitalist system where people can only make a certain amount of money and own a certain amount of property? Can people continue to support capitalism and at the same time want socialist programs, while hating the goals and desires of capitalism? Can people continue to support a system that rewards the few?
There are more questions people could ask, but these questions are hard to answer and can be only answered within the mentality of mankind. Capitalism in my opinion is like a religion, even if it is corrupt and causes humanities degeneration people will continue to find the small amount of good or happiness in it, but be blind to the bigger picture. Capitalism cannot be fought with an economic or moral debate but can only be studied like science. If people want to start fighting the corruption of the capitalist system then people need to start looking deeper into the system and approach it from a scientific point of view. Don't let dogma stand in the way of deeper understanding.
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