Capitalism and violence

Despite the pernicious effects of capitalism huge numbers of people support this iniquitous system. The competition encouraged by capitalists and their government fractures community spirit, and the winner of economic competition imposes suffering on the losers. Because they do not have what they need, the indignity, frustration, resentment and anxiety impel the losers to become violent. Capitalism means violence ‐ the pollution of environmental violence, the militarism of political violence, the maintained unemployment of structural violence. Capitalism must be eliminated. Since critical problems due to social and economic inequality are global, an organization representing all the people on Earth is required to address them. The collective ownership of natural resources and industry, and public control of production, distribution and services must be seen, not as a system which is isolated, but as a form which can be effective only as one of the the connected parts of the global System of Social Justice. Capitalism must go, taking with it excessive automation, inequality and violence.