How to explain to a junior high school student what capitalism is

Capitalism refers to a system of economics or economic sociology, in which the vast majority of the means of production are privately owned and profits are generated from the means of production by means of wage labor. In this system, goods and services circulate in the free market with the help of money. Investment decisions are made by private individuals, and production and marketing are mainly controlled and competed by corporations and businesses, acting in accordance with their respective interests.

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He was told in this way: 1. Capitalism is a kind of ownership of the means of production, that is, all the places and equipment that can be used for production and wealth creation in a country belong to private ownership, emphasizing the inviolability of private property, and theoretically there is no so-called state-owned enterprise and enterprise owned by the whole people, because once this happens, it must emphasize public welfare, which contradicts the goal of enterprise pursuit of profit maximization.

2. Capitalism is only a kind of ownership, not including the political system, do not confuse the two, although there is a confrontation between Eastern and Western ideologies, but in fact it is a confrontation of interests, and there is no irreconcilable contradiction, China's relationship with the United States and the Soviet Union is a good example!

Moreover, we should not believe the textbook judgments about the decadence and degeneration of the capitalist world, but learn to look at the problem in a dialectical way, let him read more relevant materials, divide it into two, and look at the whole of capitalism from a historical perspective.

The exploitation of workers by bosses, and the social environment in favor of this approach.

After the reform and opening up, minus before the reform and opening up, it is capitalism.

Evil capitalism kills people.

The general public briefly understands that the national economy (capital) is mainly privately owned, that is, non-public capital is the mainstay.

To put it simply, socialism is an ideal, while capitalism is a reality.

It is the sanctity of private property.

For example, the house you bought is actually only 70 years old, and 70 years will not belong to you. Under capitalism, the house you buy is always yours, and it will still be a hundred years from now.

It's something different from communism.

In capitalist society, in terms of economic base, it can be roughly divided into two kinds of people, who survive according to two means of livelihood. One is the investor, who mainly relies on the return on investment to obtain economic benefits. The other is salarymen, who mainly rely on their monthly salary as a means of earning a living.

Investors, on the other hand, are defined as the bourgeoisie.

There are many capitalist countries, such as the United States, Britain, Japan, France, Russia, and so on.

When I was six years old, I knew what capitalism and capitalist countries are, and the bourgeoisie is, in the final analysis, a system of exploitation, and the main relations of production are workers and capitalists, capitalism, which is not precisely defined.

The United States, the most powerful capitalist country in Europe now, is mostly capitalist.

Capitalism is the use of ideas to oppress the consciousness and body of the same kind, which is a kind of pathopathism of mental separation (Lan Gang concludes the conclusion).

Capitalism is a social system with capital as the main body, and this system with capital as the main body respects capital and property as private ownership, and no one is allowed to illegally occupy it, which is the meaning of the so-called private ownership, private ownership is the most important and main content of capitalism, and it cannot be called capitalism without private ownership.

Capitalism requires different capitals to play their respective roles and values on different resources to promote social development. This model of development has created a situation in which the elites and capitalists exploit the proletariat and the proletariat is unable to check and balance the elites and capitalists without political struggle, but this situation is constantly developing and improving.

Capitalist society, like all other socio-economic systems that have ever existed in history, has arisen, developed, and eventually replaced by another, higher socio-economic system, all of which are determined by the general laws of the development of human society, and are objective natural historical processes that are not subject to human will. However, compared with other previous socio-economic systems, the capitalist system has increased the social productive forces unprecedentedly, which is incomparable with any previous society. In this regard, Marx and Engels pointed out in the "Communist Manifesto":

The bourgeoisie, in less than a hundred years of its class rule, has created more productive forces than all previous generations have created. ”

Compared to feudal society, capitalism showed great historical progressiveness: first, capitalism transformed science and technology into powerful productive forces. Second, the intrinsic motivation of capital to pursue surplus value and the external pressure of competition have promoted the rapid development of social productive forces.

Finally, the capitalist ideology and political system, as a superstructure, played an important role in overcoming the self-sufficient mode of production of feudal society and in protecting, promoting and perfecting the capitalist mode of production, thus promoting the rapid development of the social productive forces and promoting social progress.

However, the historical progressiveness of capitalism does not hide its own limitations. As with all modes of production based on private ownership, the private appropriation of the capitalist means of production poses a serious obstacle to the further development of the socialization of production, a contradiction inherent in the capitalist mode of production that determines the conflicts, upheavals and crises of capitalism in the economic, political, cultural and social spheres, as well as on a global scale. This limitation of capitalism cannot be eliminated within the limits of the capitalist mode of production, and it determines the historical transitional nature of the capitalist mode of production.