POLS 3075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Capitalism Ii, Economic System, John Stuart Mill
16 Mar 2016
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Capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt (marx, 60% of the earth"s population lives in poverty. Reasons as to why marx thinks so poorly of capitalism. Women would give birth to children, put them in hammocks, and continue workings. Cotton doesn"t grow in england, so it needed to be imported from the southern. Lands taken by countries (england, france, etc. ) were necessary for the emergence of capitalism. Gold & silver also came from other countries theft and mass murder. Slavery was necessary for capitalism to arise provided cheap labour. Slaves transported throughout countries estimates vary on how many were hunted (9-20 million were transported); take into mind the slaves that were born into captivity. Human costs counts on millions of people who died, were condemned to misery because a small number of european countries wanted to be wealthy. Labour that is carried out by people who produce apple products in third-world countries.
