NSL The Age of Economics
Western Civilization is a civilisation of Economics. Everything about Western civilisation is defined and circumscribed by the parameters and dynamics of Economics.
But that has not always been the case; the ancient world never knew or experienced what we call Economics today. Economics is a uniquely and peculiarly a product of Western civilisation. In the beginning of humanity there was nothing like Economics.
But man is a social being and has, accordingly, always interacted in manner that is industrially and commercially productive. Man has always accumulated wealth and has always employed the utility of currency in his social interactions. The dimension, quality and quantity of man’s social interaction has always been defined or identified in terms of wealth and currency.
The production and accumulation of wealth has always been the case with humanity right from the beginning. The only issue here is that wealth and currency has not always been in the forms we know them. In former times the ancients defined and measured wealth in forms other than the ones we do today. In former times wealth and currency have been measured in forms other than the material and physical forms in which we measure them today.
Before the advent of this ongoing Material Age the Spiritual and Metaphysical Ages of the past have defined wealth and currency in forms spiritual and metaphysical forms, that is, other than the material and physical forms in which we measure them today. In former times the ancients defined and measured wealth and currency in spiritual and metaphysical forms. Wealth and currency were immaterial entities to the ancients before the advent of this Material Age.
So, the point here is that notwithstanding the fact that mankind, a social being, has always produced and accumulated wealth and currency, the fact still remains that the form and nature of the wealth and currency produced and accumulated by mankind over the ages varied, atimes diametrically, from one age to the other.
During the immaterial ages wealth and currency were conceived and constructed as immaterial phenomena. In this ongoing material times wealth and currency are conceived and constructed as material phenomena. Wealth and currency were defined and measured as spiritual entities in the days of the Spiritual Age; they were defined and measured as metaphysical entities in the days of the Metaphysical Age; now wealth and currency are defined and measured as material entities in this Material Age.
It is the nature of a given or particular age that defines and determines the nature of the wealth and currency utilized by the people of that particular age. The immaterial ages defined and measured wealth as an immaterial entity and now this Material Age is defining and measuring wealth and currency in material form.
Wealth is now a material entity and phenomenon in this Material Age. Money, which has now come to most especially personified wealth and currency, is now a wholly material and physical entity.
Because wealth and currency are now measured in material and physical terms even the means of producing and accumulating wealth and currency have become material and physical ones. The point is that only material and physical means can be used to produced and accumulate material and physical wealth and currency.
In immaterial times, that is, during the Spiritual and Metaphysical Ages, wealth and currency were acquired and accumulated through immaterial means. Spiritual and metaphysical means of wealth production and accumulation were the case during the prematerial ages. In former times and because wealth and currency were spiritual or metaphysical entities, the ancients produced and accumulated wealth spiritually and psychically. The ancients never engaged in any physical exercise in the production of wealth or currency which were, after all, non-physical or immaterial entities to them.
But with the advent of the Material Age even the means of producing and accumulating wealth and currency now became material and physical ones. Now the production and accumulation of wealth is carried out through physical and material exertions because this is a physical and Material Age. Wealth and currency production and accumulation have now assumed physical and material forms because wealth and currency themselves have become material and physical entities with the advent of this Material Age.
Now humanity have to engage in physical and material exertions in order to produce wealth and currency both of which have now become material and physical entities. The means of wealth production in the society has now changed to material and physical ones.
With the change of wealth production and accumulation becoming material and physical with the advent of the Material Age a new type of human endeavour appeared, namely, the ascendency of physical labour in the form of industry and commerce. Physical labour in the form of industry and commerce has eventually become the defining form of human activity in this Material Age.
With the ascendancy of physical labour the twin entities of physical industry and commercialism have come to overwhelm and consume all aspects and facets of human activities. This is naturally so because physical industry and commercialism have only one logical end at sight, namely, the maximization of profit measured in terms of material and physical wealth and currency best personified by physical money.
But physical industry and commerce constitute the mainstay of Economics. In other words Economics, expressed through industry and commercialism, has become the defining activity and endeavour of humanity in this Material Age. This is how comes Economics have come to dominate Western civilisation such that Western civilisation is today a wholly economic civilisation.
The Emergence of Material Money
It was the shift to physical labour in the form of industry and commercialism that lead to the gradual invention and emergence of material money as the greatest economic factor in Western civilisation.
Prehistoric and historic documentaries abound chronicling the rise of money as the singular legal tender that it has become today in our Western civilisation. The journey from numismatic coins through gold bullions and bank notes to today’s fiat bonds is a gradual one that is detailed in the economic history of Western civilisation.
Today money has become the absolute physical standard for the quantifying and qualification of physical labour in the form of industry and commerce and Economics in general. The history of the invention and development of money in the annals of Western civilisation is therefore more or less the history of the rise of the Age of Economy in the annals of Western civilisation.
Economics is wholly physical and material phenomenon based on the physical labour dynamics of industry and commercialism.
Of course industry and commerce once flourished in immaterial forms during the former Spiritual Age and Metaphysical Age. The ancients were also industrious and commercialism-minded, far more than us in our Western civilisation. But the industry and commerce engaged in by the ancients were not material and physical as is the case with us today. The ancients engaged in spiritual, psychic, metaphysical industry and commercialism diametrically different from the material and physical industry and commercialism we are engaged in today.
But today industry and commerce have become wholly material entities with the advent of the Material Age. And it is in this context of material and physical industry and commerce that we are now engaged in our present discussions.
It is also this material and physical industry and commercialism that have given rise to the formidable phenomenon we today refer to as Economics. We are therefore defining Economics in the restricted sense of a material and physical phenomenon that is a peculiarly and uniquely Western civilisation invention. Economics is an invention peculiar and unique only to Western civilisation.
Western Civilisation the Economic Civilisation
That Economics is peculiarly and uniquely a Western civilisation phenomenon is partly evidenced by the fact that in the past six or so hundred years that Western civilisation has flourished its defining and singular form of human endeavour has been in the form of Economics.
Western civilisation’s main form of social expression and activity is in the form of Economics constituted only of material and physical labour in the form of industry and commerce.
For the past six or so hundred years that Western civilisation existed it has been wholly dominated by Economics and nothing else. Western civilisation is the civilisation of Economics.
Economics is one other defining characteristic that differentiates Western civilisation from other civilisations. The fact that Western civilisation is the only civilisation that is wholly based and built on the fundaments of material and physical phenomenon known as Economics. As a matter of fact no any other civilisation in the annals of humanity has ever been wholly built and constructed on the basis of physical labour best expressed in the form of material and physical industry, commerce or Economics in general.
Western civilisation is wholly an Economic civilisation. And this is a special characteristic of Western civilisation, the fact that it is wholly defined by the dynamics of Economics. This is the only civilisation that flourishes and subsists only on the production and consumption of material and physical wealth and nothing else.
For the past six hundred years that Western civilisation has existed it is actually Economics that have dominated and ruled the world. Every aspect and facet of human activity is now dominated by the dynamics of Economics. This is why the last six hundred years of Western civilisation has been nothing but an Age of Economics.
The history of the rise of Western civilisation is in essence the history of the rise of the Age of Economics. Before the rise of Western civilisation there was no Economics. The ancients never knew Economics. Economics is a completely Western peculiarity. Economics is Western civilisation. This is evidenced in part, and as we have repeated over and over again, by the fact that for the past six hundred years that Western civilisation has ruled the world human activities and endeavours have been completely overtaken and overwhelmed by Economics.
The Daughters of Economics
For the past six hundred years that Western civilisation reign supreme human means of production have been overtaken only by the material and physical implements of Economics in the form of physical industry and commercialism.
Economics, being the defining feature of Western civilisation, has accordingly, and over the time, given rise to the proliferation of a myriad of sociological accoutrements that today inevitably and inextricably characterise Western civilisation. These ‘accoutrements’ resulting as by-products of economics includes Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, etc, etc.
It is economics that gave rise to all these defining features of Western civilisation. If we look beyond Western civilisation we will readily see that before the rise of Western civilisation mankind never knew or experience any of these daughters of Economics including Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, etc, etc. These things are peculiar to Western civilisation simply because they are the products of Economics which is the backbone of Western civilisation.
In the civilisations of the past preceding Western civilisation we don’t see Capitalism, we don’t see Democracy, we don’t see Secularism – we don’t see any of these by-products of Economics that define Western civilisation today. We don’t see all these by-products of Economics in those former civilisations simply because Economics did not exist in those former civilisations.
Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, etc, are features that go only with Economics and that is why we them only in this Western civilisation that is mainly characterised and dominated only by Economics. It is Economics that brought all these defining characteristics of Western civilisation about.
And though we may in a sense see the good in all these by-products of Economics the fact remains that these ‘Daughters of Economics’ are evil entities. Yes, some may have their attentions fixated on the good or positive side of Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, and others. But the fact still remains that each and every one of these by-products of Economics have actually brought more disaster and have wrought more havoc on humanity than any good they have brought to humanity.
There is a seamy side to the story of Economics. A careful and analytical study of each and every one of the by-products of Economics – including Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, etc – readily confirms the fact that Economics is more of a disaster than a blessing to humanity. Capitalism, Democracy, Secularism, have all, in the long run, brought nothing good to humanity; they have simply wreak havoc on humanity.
We don’t have to start reiterating the now over-familiar story of the havoc Capitalism has wrought on humanity. Neither do we have to start boring anybody with the well known story of the evils of Democracy and the fact that Democracy is today a leading cause of all the socio-economic conflicts and exploitations in the world. Nor is this the right place to bog anybody down with details of the sordid accomplishments of Secularism, the godlessly humanist philosophy of man’s wickedness on man.
And all these are the by-products of Economics. This is the overall effect of Economics. In the long run Economics has brought nothing good to humanity. This is the problem of Western civilisation. The fact that Western civilisation is dominated by Economics the mother of all monetary evil.
The Evils of Western Economics
Economics is flawed with an endless array of problems. And these problems of Economics have become the banes of Western civilisation. The point here is that almost all the problems besetting Western societies today can be directly or indirectly traced to causes deeply rooted in Economics.
Economics is responsible for most of the social evils plaguing Western societies and the world in general today. These include poverty, high crime rates, immorality, classism, racism, environmental degradation, political instabilities, warfare, etc, etc. Each and every one of these problems are either directly or indirectly caused by Economics.
The cause of whichever problem besets a any given Western society today can directly or indirectly be traced to Economics. This is because Economics completely and totally defines Western civilisation and has permeated every aspect and facet of Western civilisation. The fact is that everything about Western civilisation is completely defined and circumscribed by Economics. It is in this context that we readily see the evil by-products of Economics – including poverty, hunger, high crime rates, classicism, racism, political instabilities, immorality, environmental degradation, etc, etc – being direct or indirect result of Economics. All these social evils are the products of Economics.
It is quite easy to see in this context that almost all the problems besetting Western societies are the by-products of Economics. In other words Economics is more or less a curse on Western civilisation.
The truth of the matter is that Economics is itself and necessarily an unjust and evil system of monetization. So the dynamics and mechanisms of Economics must necessarily work in manner that is evil and unjust. This of course inevitably leads to evil, unjust and negative consequences.
Since the principles and mechanisms on which Economics works are naturally evil and unjust nothing good should be expected out of Economics but evil and unjust consequences. This fact explains the reason Economics has become the devastatingly destructive force on the very fabrics of Western civilisation as we see it today.
The point here is that if we take a look at virtually every problem that is besetting the West today we will be able to directly or indirectly trace its cause to sources rooted deeply in Economics. The hideous need to perpetually maximize profit for the economically powerful explains why everything about Economics almost always end up negative, unjust and evil.
In the long run we will see that Economics has actually done nothing for Western civilisation than to spawn a myriad of social evils that are now fast destroying the very fabrics and fundaments of Western civilisation. Economics is today the begetter of all the social evils that are besetting Western civilisation today.
We should also note the fact that the social evils besetting Western civilisation today, as resulting from the inherent evil nature of Economics, are peculiar and unique only to Western civilisation. The civilisations of the past predating Western civilisation never witnessed all the social evils of Economics that Western civilisation is witnessing today. This, of course, is explained by the simple fact that Economics was unknown to former civilisations; Economics is itself a peculiarly Western civilisation invention.
The social evils besting Western civilisation today were unknown to ancient civilisations for the simple fact that these ancient civilisations never practiced or even knew the evil call Economics. For instance former civilisations never see poverty on a widespread and mass scale the way we see it today in Western civilisation.
The former civilisations did not see or witness the high crime rates that we see in Western civilisation today.
Former civilisations did not see or witness hunger on the widespread scale that we see it in Western civilisation today.
Former civilisations did not witness all these social evils that Western civilisation is inherently characterized with. So, we can readily see that all these social evils are peculiar to Western civilisation alone – thanks to the evil nature of Economics which all these social evils are by-products of.
So, Economics has become the greatest destroyer of Western civilisation itself. This is because Economics has become the principal and singular generator of all the social evils that are besetting Western civilisation today. As we have mentioned over and over again a critical and analytical look at each of these social evils will readily show us that their root causes directly or indirectly traces back to Economics.
The Menace of Industrialization
The problem is that Economics subsists only on mechanisms that are completely destructive to the overall development of humanity. The Industrial Revolution is, for instance, one of the earliest such subsistence means of survival of Economics. But the Industrial Revolution has only perpetrated industrialization which is today one of the greatest destroyer of both natural and human environments.
Industrialization is an insatiable monster that must be feed through the destruction of both human and natural environments. And industrialization is an integral and inextricable part of Economics. Production must continue to rise and markets must continue to expand geometrically if industrialization is to be sustained to ensure the continued subsistence of Economics.
This insatiateness of Industrialization for the sustenance of Economics inevitably leads to the intractable and destructive conflicts that invariably characterize Economics anywhere Western civilisation makes its appearance.
The conflicts generated by Industrialization naturally resulted in the development of the efficiently destructive Military-industrial complex that Economics eventually resulted into. In effect the Industrial Revolution and its resultant Industrialization have done nothing but to feed into the development of the military-industrial complex which goes into the expansion of the Economics. Today Western power is defined by the ruthless might of the military-industrial complex that is as a direct result of the evils of Economics.
Western Economics is built on Greed and Selfishness
The Anglo-American concept of Free Market economics is merely a pseudonym for the stampeding of the economic interest and aspirations of the weak by the insatiable greed of the strong in a market that is purported to be free and fair for both parties.
The only thing the free market system actively promotes in its participants is the avaricious craving at maximizing one’s profits and nothing else.
In this context the traders involved in the competitive business of free market economics see everything only in terms of the statistical indices of profit and losses. Even human beings become bereft of any emotional or living qualities and are bestially reduced to the stark figures of numbers signifying profit or losses.
Economics in effect is a system of economics built around numbers and not peoples.
Economics is a wicked system of economics which glorifies greed and selfishness and leaves no room for humanitarian or philanthropic considerations.
As a matter of fact Economics promotes the irreligious and satanic idea that greed is good and generosity is bad.
Western Economics is Sinful
Economics is therefore more or less a satanic system of monetisation which is opposed to the basic principles of all religions and systems of morality in the world today. We discuss some of these sinful features and characteristics of Western economic in the following paragraphs.
For instance, sharp business tactics, that is sinful and evil schemes in the name of business, are encouraged and promoted by Economics and finance. Businessmen who tend to cheat and deceive others are lauded as being intelligent instead of being identified for what they really are, that is, as cheats and deceivers.
It is the greedy and sinful nature of Economics that see nothing wrong with usury. As a matter of fact usury is seen and promoted as a good business practice by Economics.
It is also in this context that Economics see nothing wrong in gaining unjust monopoly over ones’ competitors in a free market economy.
The greedy and ruthless nature of Economics is also expressed in the manner in which it destroys the environment. As long as it rakes in profits, polluting the environment isn’t seen as something bad at all.
Monopoly and the Scarcity Theory
A major evil of Economics is the theory of scarcity which underlies the greedy, usurious foundations of Capitalism.
The greedy and insatiable nature of the monetary system of Economics is such that an artificial system of scarcity is employed to lubricate the system.
This artificial scarcity drives the evil of competition upon which Economics is built. The problem here is that scarcity implies that others must be dispossessed for some to accumulate wealth. It is simply a system of the survival of the fittest at the expense of the unfitted.
The artificial scarcity built into the competitive monetary system of Economics is such that the Monopoly is the ultimate goal of all competitors engaged in the game of ruthless profit making. All these lead to an avaricious life of trying to greedily accumulate all while denying everybody else everything.
But Monopoly is a evil that is inbuilt in the very nature of Economics. The fittest or the market leader in any economic society can, out of greed and avariousness, inflict all manners of oppressive market strategies on his rivals and competitors using his advantage of greater capital and fiscal powers to unjustly subjugate them. For instance, the market leader can flex advertisement and political muscles over his competitors and rivals.
But the dangers and evils of Monopoly are a legion. First and foremost is the fact that Monopoly actually militates against the healthy growth and development of monetary system of any given society. Monopoly is a threat to even the growth of Economics itself. The point here is that Monopoly leads only to the growth of the super rich and the protection of his interest and not the growth of the society or the protection of the economic activities of the society.
A good way to illustrate the danger that Monopoly pose to the growth of economic activities in a given society may be demonstrated by the consequences of a merger between leading financial or economic corporations in a given society.
Competition
Competition is one of the fundamental principles of Economics.
But competition is by nature built on strife and aggression which inevitably leads to oppression and deception.
What Economics does is to create artificial scarcity in order to create competition which is nothing more than the powerful greedily grapping wealth away from the powerless.
In this regard it should be noted that modern Economics has also been seriously influenced by the evolutionist theory of the survival of the fittest.
At the root of the concept of competition in Economics is the vehemence to crush one’s competitor or rival. A running glance through the history of Western civilization readily proves this fact.
The First World War was said to be as a result of the German and Austrian denial of Serbia’s claim to Bosnia-Herzegovina. The truth, however, is that the First World War was as a result of the economic competition between Great Britain and Germany. The British ruling class decided to instigate a ‘Great War’ or ‘World War’ in an attempt to crush its economic competitor, Germany, as Germany was then fast becoming an economic rival. The First World War was an economic survival of the fittest crushing of Germany by Britain.
Even the Second World War was also as a result of the economic competition between the Great Powers of colonial Europe.
As a matter of fact it is a national but unsaid belief in America that taking away from those who have little is good as long as one has the power to do so. Nothing can epitomize the theory of the survival of the fittest better.
The problem with this competitive format of economics, as is the case with Economics, is the fact that even in the midst of excessive wealth and affluence, Economics cannot function without its engendering the prevalence of competition, strife, violence, aggressively aggrandizing greed, and, of course, frustration and failure.
Western Economics Promotes Violence
It is the competitive nature of Economics that made it to be inseparable with violence to which it is in fact a mother.
All manners of unfounded theories have been propounded by Western scholarship as to the prevalence of violence among ancient and primitive societies with the brutish caveman being the highlighted as the prototypic violent man. The fact, however, remains to the effect that ancient mankind may not, afterall, have been as violent as modern mankind.
As a matter of fact Dr. Demeo persuasively argued, in his renowned book titled ‘Saharasia’, that the ancients were pacific and that the rise of violence was concurrent with the rise of modern civilization.
So, and contrary to the revisionist prehistory of Western scholarship, the ancients were not as violent and aggressive as we are being made to believe today. If anything at all, violence is a tradition of modern mankind and Western civilization should, in particular, be ranked, more or less, as the most violent civilization in the history of mankind.
The Violence of Free Market
At the root and basis of the free market philosophy of Economics is the evil of competition, violence, survival of the fittest and elimination of the weakest. Free market economy promotes nothing but deception, violence and financial warfare.
The idea of a Free Market is nothing but another wicked ideology of exploitation of the weak by the strong. Free Market economy is wicked and evil because it is based on the same evil concepts of competition, selfishness and greed that underlay the fabrics of Economics.
It is the same inhuman factors of the survival of the fittest that are employed in the settings of the Free Market economy. This is a situation whereby the powerful is accorded all the opportunity and rights to manhandle and oppress the weak.
In the international community the Free Market economy translates into a situation whereby the powerful nations of the First World are afforded the free reins to exploit and oppress the weak nations of the Third World and the South in general. The developed countries of the North are using banner of Free Market economy to economically exploit the underdeveloped and developing countries of the South.
The so-called Free Market is actually designed to ensure the survival of the fittest and the suffocation of the unfit. In the Free Market setting nobody can in reality compete against the unparalleled powers of the fittest yet we are made to believe that the competition in the Free Market is free and fair.
The Free Market is actually not free. The entire world have been deceived into believing that the Free Market is an ideal economic setting wherein all the marketers are afforded equal rights to a free and fair competition. The truth, however, is that the Free Market is merely an unjust setting for the economic exploitation of the weak by the powerful.
The point here is that it is just plain impossible for the weak to compete against the powerful. If you are in a ‘free market’ and you are left with no choice than to compete only with forces that are way too powerful than you then it is no more a free market.
That is the subtle point that the Free Market conspirators will not continue to hide from the eyes of the world. They don’t want anybody to know that the very concept of a ‘Free Market’ economy where the weak and the strong can compete in an egalitarian manner is practically impossible. The concept of a Free Market economy is a fallacy.
Gravity of Money
What may be termed the ‘Gravity of Money’ is another major problem of Economics. In Economics the system is such that the rich gets richer while the poor gets poorer. In other words, no matter the hard work on the part of the poor they find it difficult to get rich while no matter the laziness on the part of the rich they find it easy to get richer.
The main reason for this anomaly still boils down to the debt-based monetary system of Economics whereby the rich can make serious money out of not working but merely charging interest and collecting royalties on the monies they have already made.
The competitive nature of Economics also encourages and facilitates the gravity of money. In this case the rich use all the means at their disposal to selfishly and greedily dispossess the poor of their right at also getting rich. Economics is a monetary system that pushes the human mind into a cascade of greed and further greed the richer the person gets.
Economics is such that the happiness of the rich comes to be hinged on how much is he richer than everyone else. This, of course, means that the rich can only be happy by getting richer and by consciously fighting to impoverish everyone else. Economics is a wicked system of dog-eat-dog competition whereby poverty must be foisted on the rest of the society by the power-mongering rich. The powerful rich can not be fulfilled or happy unless they get richer by making others poorer.
This Gravity of Money evil of Economics has lead to the production of super rich individuals in the West. Money has gravitated to such individuals in a manner that they become financially invincible at the expense of hundreds of millions of their own impoverished countrymen. Conrad Black of Canada, Bill Gates of the USA, Carlos Slim of Brazil, Mittal of the UK, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria, etc, etc, are a few example of such people.
The Gravity of Money is also observable on the international economic scene whereby rich countries get richer while poor countries get poorer.
The evils of the Gravity of Money is shielded from the eyes of the public by the evils of Western education and Western media which is controlled and manipulated by the super rich elite who are the benefactors of the Gravity of Money.
What is need to counter the evils of the Gravity of Money is a more just system of distribution of wealth.
In the Islamic world this is done through the Zakat system of annual wealth redistribution.
Classism
The evil of classism is itself a direct product of Western civilisation. If we take a look at the historiography of classism in Western societies we readily see that it has always been a completely economic phenomenon.
The history of the clash of the social classes in Western societies is nothing but a history of the clash of the economic interests of economically defined social entities.
A careful look will show us that right from the beginning Western civilisation began as a civilisation of social classes clearly delineated by economic differences. Western societies begun as feudal societies with the classes of the feudal lords and the serfs locked in intractable economic clash. Later on Western societies were stratified into the upper, middle and lower classes each of which is categorically defined by its economic capabilities. When Europe became a global power during the era of Colonialism classism was then transformed into an international affair with the two classes of the upper class Great Powers of Europe and their lower class vassal, or Colonial, colonies in all other parts of the world.
So the history of classism in Western civilisation is the history of Economics. We should note the fact here that economics has always divided Western societies into classes. His has always be the case throughout the classism historiography of Western civilisation – right from the days of feudalism to this very day of Neo-colonialism all of which are nothing but social expressions of the classism of Economics.
The point here is that the very concept of a social class in Western societies is based on economic delineations only. In other words classism is itself nothing but a purely economic entity. Each of the social classes are actually defined by their economic features and capabilities.
It is in this regard that we can easily see that even the clash between the classes is nothing but the clash of the economic interests of economically defined social entities. This is because the classes themselves are nothing but economic classes.
This is the point here, namely, that Classism is nothing but Economics. Classism is nothing but a social expression of the clash that is inherent in the dynamics of Economics.
Because these social classes are economic in nature, everything about them is circumscribed by economic features and phenomena.
The problem of Economics is that it subsists and survives on the clash of the classes. Economics feeds and grow on the struggle between the classes. Without the clash of the classes Economics will cease to grow or flourish in any given society.
On the other hand as long as there is Economics there will always be class struggle and the clash of the classes. As long as there is Economics there will always be different, economically-differentiated, classes in the society. So, it is now evident that Economics is the perpetrator of the evil of classism that has bedeviled Western civilisation right from the onset.
Economics is nothing but a classism system of monetarism, that is, it is by and large a monetary system that is mainly beneficial to the elite or upper class and nobody else. On the other hand Economics has only wreaked havoc and misery on the overwhelming majority of mankind constituting the middle and lower classes.
The point is that all the achievements of Economics throughout the ages have been of benefit only to the elite and the upper class.
But the sad story is that there can never be an end to classism because it is an integral aspect of Economics which is the backbone of Western civilisation. Because there can never not be Economics in Western civilisation, there can never be no classism or the struggle of the classes in Western civilisation.
The Western society will always be divided into classes because that is the way in which Economics works. According to the principles and dynamics of Economics, which is the backbone of Western civilisation, the society must naturally be divided into classes. And these social classes’ economic interests must clash for the wheels of Economics to move.
Poverty is caused by Economics
Poverty is today rampant in many parts of the world and most especially in the Third World. However, even in the technologically advanced and affluent countries of the West, poverty is also common among the lower classes.
But rampant poverty as is seen throughout the world was not the case in ancient times. Western civilisation is the only civilisation, in the entire annals of humanity, that has been characterized by the massive scale of poverty that we see today in our Western societies. No any other civilisation in the past have ever seen or witnessed the rampant and permanent poverty that has been part and parcel of Western civilisation right from the beginning.
As a matter of fact Western civilisation has been characterized by mass poverty right from the onset. Widespread poverty afflicting major sections of any given society has been an invariable and enduring feature of Western civilisation right from the beginning of Western civilisation to this very day.
Not only in Third World countries but overwhelming sections of entire societies also in First World countries are subjected to abject poverty characteristic of Western civilization right from the beginning. So, poverty is a general characteristic of Western civilisation and is not restricted to Third World countries, products of Western civilisation of course, alone.
As a matter of fact poverty was more or less none existent in ancient civilisations and the cultures of the past. Poverty was more or less unknown to the ancients. Ancient cultures and civilisations did not know or experience poverty among the weak, or any other section, of their societies simply because they did not practice Economics. By not practicing Economics the ancients did not allow the evil features of Economics – say violent competition, artificial scarcity, the legalization of greed and usury, etc – to wreak the havoc of massive and perpetual poverty on their populations.
Ancient civilisations employed check and balances to forestall the emergence of economic factors that can give rise to the type of mass poverty that is characteristic of Western civilisation. Violent competition, artificial scarcity, the legalization of greed and usury, etc, etc, were not allowed the chance to grow into monsters giving rise to mass poverty as is the case with our Western civilisation today.
We are so used to poverty as a familiar feature of our society today that we are not aware of the fact that there was nothing like poverty in ancient cultures and former civilisations. We are not aware of the fact that before the rise of Western civilisation mankind never knew what was poverty especially in the institutionalized and established manner that we see it today as an integral aspect of the Western society.
Poverty was exported and spread through Economics, to all other parts of the world by the world expansionism of Western civilisation in the last six hundred or so years. Before the rise and global spread of Western civilisation in the last six hundred years abject poverty was more or less unknown in most parts of the world.