Kapital

A detailed Summary of Kapital

When one gets down to the roots of capitalism you find that it is a form of government that allows the rich to get richer, the poor, poorer and the middle class to stay the same. Karl Marx wrote a book, Kapital about the what capitalism does to the people in a society, how it takes the humainty out of being and replaces it with x. Not only does it do that but it creates a chain of commodities, fetishisis, and alienation within a society.

Commodities are at the top of this chain. A commodity is anything that is produced for exchange. They have two parts to them, the use of the commodity and its value. With women, and men the use of the human body is humanity, doing whatever it is that pleases you, whether it be riding your bike, reading, dancing, whatever, it comes down to your humanity. Their humanity is turned into a value when women have to sell their use to obtain different forms of commodities, to then exchange those commodities for more commodities. In capitalism women are defined by their bodies, and judged by what their bodies can do, and look like. Women have to sell their humanity because in capitalism that's the only thing people have to sell. In capitalism it doesn

The effects of alienation are much greater on women themselves. Women begin to see themselves in unhealthy ways if they feel they're not living up to that standard of beauty. Not seeing themselves for themselves begins a whole unhealthy chain of eating disorders, over exercising; industries have been created to cater to that feeling. Plastic surgery is something that was around at first to fix scarring and disfigurements, but became a tool that could alter their body to whatever women felt a need to fix. If a woman looks to old, she can get a face-lift. Too large? Get liposuction. Breasts are too small? Get implants. Whatever you feel the need to fix about yourself you can fix it if you have the necessary means. Cosmetics and clothing also fix the problem. It's not as extreme as plastic surgery, but it's still there to cover up, or show whatever you want. Makeup literally covers up whatever you don't want seen; it alters your face. Clothing can make an outward change to whatever you don't want to be seen. It can enhance your assets or hide everything about you. The clothing industry makes tons of money off of people's insecurities. If you want to look like a model, here's what the models are wearing. Your breasts are not the size you want and you don't want implants, this miracle bra will help. You can waste tons of money on diet pills/shakes, become bulimic/anorexic, get surgery done, put on 1/2 a ton of makeup, or buy 1/2 a ton of clothes. Whatever you feel need to be fixed, altered, or hidden, there seems to be a commodity out there for you.

A large part of society that puts that and more standards on women are men. Men fetishsize women as

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Category: History