Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of the PPD book was talking about Capitalism class and the Matrix of Domination. Capitalism basically means turning money into more money and using that money to produce goods, and then they sell it higher then the actual cost to make more money. End the end the only people profiting from this would be the ones who are selling the items. In saying this, it goes on to talk about how the richest people in the world own most of its wealth, which leads into the class system which shows how all this is used to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. For the poor, there isn’t enough money to go around thus making it a constant struggle for the lower class to keep sufficient funds. The Matrix of domination is shown how you can be privileges and unprivileged at the same time, they use the example of a middle class white man being able to see that him being white is a privilege, but him being a member of the working class can make him unprivileged.

I can’t really say if I agree or disagree on this issue, the main reason being that I can see that capitalism is a bad thing but at the same time, I have never experienced anything else in life so it’s hard to really take a stand on the issue. The way that he presents the issues is almost flawless, because he leaves out nothing out at all. He defines capitalism so perfectly; I even found out something that I didn’t really know myself. In the long run though I would have to say if I really had to choose a side to take, I would not side with Johnson, just because capitalism is the way of the world in a way, if you take that away, yes everyone would be the same but, then there would be no reason to try and do better.

My views on this topic is that capitalism can be a good thing; I think of it was a way to actually improve yourself. To put it into the context of racism, yes it can be used, but what in this book hasn’t been proven to have a hidden racist agenda? Like we said in class, there is always going to be some kind of racism, or segregation in the world because we always fin a way to repeat history