In Karl Marx’s, “Communist Manifestoon,” Marx discusses the path moving from using raw indigenous materials to using materials from the “remotest zones.” While the narrator is reading that from the Manifesto, the screen flashes a film of the Flintstones using dinosaurs to lift rocks, and when it comes to the using materials from the remotest zones, it shows a fountain spewing oil instead of water. While over time, those raw materials have changed; the basic concept of this has not.
I thought the text and the depiction given in the cartoon brought this part of the Communist Manifesto together. For centuries each country has been relying on their own material resources, commonly known as fossil fuel. Since the U.S. does not have the means at hand to develop our most used fossil fuel, we outsource to the “remotest zones,” of the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East, and else where to obtain our “need” for oil. The way that I interpreted this part of the text was that instead of relying on ourselves to produce the means that we deem necessary, we go else where, taking others land, and making it our own.
A perfect example of the rampant run of the capitalist society would be the recent BP Gulf Oil Spill. Going to the remotest of zones to pull up oil for our country to run off of. Due to the “need” for remote resources being pulled, and the company’s push to gain capital, the oil spill was caused.
Round about, if there wasn’t a constant push for monetary gain in a capitalistic society, could such man-made disasters as the BP Oil Spill could possibly be prevented?
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I don't think any man-made disasters will ever be prevented or avoided. The truth is that it is in human nature to progress and gain and better ones self. No matter what type of government you put people in the true nature of humans will not be broken. We as humans are generally very selfish, it doesn't take much work to look out for ourselves. What takes work is trying to care for others. We have become a lazy and cold world over time. Take "communism" in the Soviet Union. It could not even be implemented correctly, rather it was used in selfish ways to benefit the leaders of the Soviet Union. Same thing happened in the BP oil spill, in order to save time and money, someone cut some corners, and before you knew it our shores were lined with oil. In order to really see change in the world around us and to prevent crazy man-made disasters individuals must decide that the person next to us is just as important as ourselves. We must work to care for others and treat them like they deserve to be treated. We have to stop being apathetic, and begin realizing that it is not "my" world, but rather it is "our" world.
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