Exploring the Nature of Capitalism
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In the last post, we described how capitalism gained its evangelical force.
In this post we describe the lot of ‘The Poor’ during the 18th and 19th centuries, and the ways in which, finally, they gained a foothold into the ‘lower middle classes’ of the West.
In the process, Western Europeans transferred their attitudes toward the wastelands of ‘The Poor’ in western Europe, to the wastelands of their newly acquired colonies and ‘protectorates’.
Those who live inside the bubble of capitalism have commonly seen anything outside that bubble as wasteland; regions which are out of control, dangerous, and in need of civilisation; in the words of William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, in need of ‘Soup, Soap and Salvation’.
They have, all-too-often, viewed those regions as impoverished, ignorant, superstitious and corrupt, subject to the control of capricious chiefs, dictators, war-lords,gangsters and reprobates.
They are regions in need of the light of civilisation and the Gospel, development and democracy, of human rights and law and order.
They are regions within which Western humanitarian effort must be focused.
And this all began in the the 18th and 19th centuries when Western Europeans finally made a concerted effort to reclaim the wastelands of The West.
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