Sentences with phrase «in a capitalist society»

@tim People living in capitalist societies who do not own 100 % of their labor (per your definition) give up the percentage to their employer so that they do not have to own the risk of investing in equipment / office space / etc to be able to perform their labor and the risk of having to actually turn the labor into something someone else is willing to buy.

This gets confused a lot because of what people in capitalist societies call communism.

Also, real democracy can not exist in capitalist society because the majority of property is privately owned so can not be controlled by the public.

In a capitalist society money buys political power — the working class lack the resources to challenge that power except by the collective representation offered to them through their trade unions.

«They have this people - first mentality more than we do here in our capitalist society, where innovation is sort of equated with letting businesses do whatever they need to grow.

What?!? Just who does he think he is making a living?!? He should be ashamed to speak his mind and go after a dream in a capitalist society that values speaking your mind and going after your dream!

Nevertheless, there are a great many faithful believers that struggle toward daily balance: the demands of responsibility in a capitalist society, seeking to hear God's voice, living in a seemingly self - sufficient world, vastly expanding that world through belief in a spiritual reality.

Likewise in capitalist societies there have been some positive actions.

Since in capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part of the working class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.

Is there a serious equivalent of this theory stating if the means of production in a capitalist society are controlled by a large monopoly, this society would look like a communist society?

Eisenstein explained the men are the most power in the capitalist society.

As if the government can just choose to take control of companies permanently in a capitalist society?

You see, game development is a business and businesses in a capitalist society are ruled by market forces....

I am a disgruntled consumer in a capitalist society.

When addressing this topic, Sierra often pays people to be involved whose situation and place in society emphasise the extreme inequalities present in a capitalist society.

The artist has selected a text by novelist Jon Berger, one of the first post-war thinkers to analyze the position of animals in a capitalist society.

While questioning the basic assumption that one can not be «present» in a capitalist society unless one exists as a consumer group, DAM!

In Alasdair Gray's great Scottish novel Lanark, the selfishness and isolation of modern life in a capitalist society turns people into dragons with hard scaly skins.

Dorland's work questions the deeper meaning beneath our consumer - driven lifestyles while exposing the inherent decay in a capitalist society driven by instant gratification and planned obsolescence.

Drawing on themes such as celebrity, death, and commodity culture, the silkscreens are seen as metaphors for American culture and the fickle nature of fame in a capitalist society.

They both, in different ways, asked, «What did Marx actually have to say about humanity's relationship with nature in capitalist society?»

Law school does not prepare practitioners to practice, and lacks intellectual rigor (it's remarkable that a discipline founded on the interpretation of texts pays virtually no formal attention to hermeneutics and only outsiders like Stanley Fish, with his background as an English professor, ever write about «theory»; few law schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist society).

Add it up, and the unfolding debacle at General Growth illustrates how optimism and entrepreneurial zeal, characteristics we extol in this capitalist society, sometimes can lead to over-confidence and catastrophe.

As you will see, anyone living in a capitalist society has thrown out their morals long ago.

The fact that it exists in this capitalist society is fascinating.

If you make that jump, and would agree that workers currently do not have full access to the result of their labor (which is fair to say), you could also say that people in capitalist societies must live in terror and fear (which is not generally the case).

True, in a capitalist society, accountability to the dominant ideology appears to be spontaneous, but it appears so because that ideology informs the mechanisms by which accountability is institutionalized.

In a capitalist society an unstable coalition of capitalists along with their partners in the state decide the course of events, as far as possible, and do their best to stop everyone else from having any say at all.

«I'm someone who believes that we live in a capitalist society and that the Labour party is about trying to achieve socialism within that.

In our capitalist society, we often strive intensely to do whatever we are doing better than our competitor.

We have overlooked and discounted ancient knowledge due to living in a capitalist society.

In the same way, nobody ever actually talks about DRM but use it as a proxy for «piracy» or «sharing» (if they did actually discuss DRM, they'd be agin» it, because its lack of ROI is empirically measurable in and of itself, for better or for worse, we live in a capitalist society that only does things that don't have a provable ROI when overridden by ideology, religion, or sex, so any supporter of DRM is a bad, bad, capitalist).

Me: In a capitalist society, the worker's alienation from his humanity occurs because the worker can only express labor or work — which is a basic social aspect of personal individuality — through a privately owned system of industrial production in which each worker is an instrument, a thing, not a person.

In a capitalist society, it's hard for all the major players in an industry to keep on winning.

As for the system, art is a product for sale, in a capitalist society.

The salutary result is a self - conscious awareness that, in a capitalist society, any claim of possibly standing outside the marketplace is both specious and pretentious.

With its waves of brightening and dimming light, $ is a hypnotic, seductive, yet also critical, comment upon the mirage - like promises that are proffered to us all in everyday life in capitalist society.

Watson suggests that, in a capitalist society, art is above all a luxury commodity, and art criticism is the packaging designed to create a taste for it.

According to Schwindt, in a capitalist society it is easy to forget that our bodies are vulnerable because they seem quite abstract and death does not seem to exist — until it actually happens.

The reality is that in a capitalist society, people in the for - profit sector seek to profit from their endeavors, lawyers and LLLTs alike.